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Epistemology is the theory of knowledge and metaphysics. However, philosophers disagree about what is knowledge, about how one obtains it and even about whether there is any to be gotten. The theory of reality has traditionally competed for the primary role in philosophical inquiry. Sometimes epistemology has won and sometimes metaphysics, depending on the methodological and substantive presuppositions of the philosopher.
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Koskinen, K.U., Breite, R. (2020). Epistemology. In: Uninterrupted Knowledge Creation. SpringerBriefs in Business. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57303-4_4
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