Can someone explain what metaphysics and epistemology means? And with examples as well please.
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In terms of branches of philosophy metaphysics deal with the most basic underlying questions we could ask about our existence. What is existence, what causes a thing to happen, does time exist, how can something be conscious etc. These are what most people think of when they think of the big deep questions that philosophy deals with. Pick anyone of them and argue for long enough and eventually someone will ask “sure but how do you know that?” Which is basically epistemology. The philosophy of knowledge, what is true. How do we know?
These are some of the most basic branches of philosophy and in many ways they form the basis for the other often more practical branches ethics (what ought a person do?) And aesthetics (what constitutes beauty.)
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