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Understanding Knowledge and Truth by Jay-R De Guzman is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Epistemology is the study of how we acquire and validate knowledge. There are two main ways we acquire knowledge: through our senses by perceiving reality, and through rational thinking using concepts. We validate knowledge by retracing the steps in our reasoning process, getting consensus from others, testing beliefs in action, and determining if beliefs correspond to reality (correspondence theory of truth) or cohere with other beliefs (coherence theory of truth). The goal of epistemology is to understand
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- Jay-R De Guzman
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