Can someone explain what metaphysics and epistemology means? And with examples as well please.
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Don’t know about metaphysics.
Epistemology in the Social Sciences refers to knowledge frameworks.
It broadly encompasses what can be known from within a particular reference.
The knowledge of someone living in a western culture is different to a first nations culture.
Theoretical frameworks come from different epsitemologies. Marxism and the post-structuralist theories explored by Foucault are good examples of this.
That’s my viewing of it from my studies. I think other fields may have a different interpretation.
A bit like discourses in the social sciences has a very specific meaning different from the dictionary definition.
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