An
"epistemological question" is a question that asks about how we know things or how we can gain knowledge about something. It looks into the nature of knowledge, what it is, and how we can understand the world around us.
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Philosophy and theology might make an important contribution to this fundamentally
epistemological question by, for example, helping the empirical sciences to recognize a difference between... evolution as the origin of a succession in space and time, and creation as the ultimate origin of participated being in essential Being.»
«With Heidegger's philosophy, we are always engaged in going back to the foundations, but we are left incapable of beginning the movement of return that would lead from the fundamental ontology to the
properly epistemological question of the status of the human sciences.»
Today the academy's mandate involves promoting the progress of mathematical, physical, and natural sciences and participating in the study of
related epistemological questions and issues.
From the ontological and
epistemological questions about the nature of truth to the simply mechanical objection that «the whole truth» can not be told, I can't help feel that I'm missing a key element of the legal view of this.
Love the S / N contribution — that is a new take on
the epistemological question for this forum at least.
Paul Ricoeur, dissatisfied with the one - way street of Heideggerian ontology that prevents «repeating
the epistemological question after ontology», (43) attempts to construct a return thoroughfare back to epistemology.
[13] Additionally, it is important to note that he lived in a period where faith was cast into the background of
the epistemological question of «What can one know?»
Barth, because he makes an attempt»... to answer the methodological and historical problems raised by the nineteenth century by foreclosing all discussion of
epistemological questions and insisting that the subjectivity of Jesus Christ, the God - man, is the only important reality confronting the mind of man.»
The epistemological question is: What is the relation of symbols to reality?
were superseded by
the epistemological question.
Of the three basic human questions posed above,
the epistemological question (What or how can we know?)
But those who welcome the supersession of
the epistemological question by the community question need to recognize how deep - seated and how historically well - founded are the fears of foundationalists who believe that if objectivism disappears, force, not some new epistemology, will take its place.
A more exact way of formulating the distinctiveness of our present situation would be to say that the community question has, in the last decade or so, replaced
the epistemological question as foundational for all other inquiries.
The questions we have treated in this book (such as whether nature has purpose; whether biology is reducible to physics and chemistry; whether and how chance comes into play in the cosmos; and now
the epistemological question of how science relates to religion) revolve around the issue of whether our universe is one - dimensional or hierarchical.
Kaku responds: You raise some difficult theological and
epistemological questions!
The epistemological question resonates today in Chicago, as more than 32,000 teachers and other members of the Chicago Teachers Union prepare to vote on a September 10 referendum for a new, five - year contract.
What I'm trying to say is that while this sounds like
an epistemological question, it's actually the opposite: it's the question of how to account for certainty.
Only instead of
an epistemological question, formalism here becomes an entirely practical question about art and illusion: however is that done?
The project will raise self - reflexive artistic concerns and
epistemological questions, as well as political and cultural questions of locality and immigration, hybrid identity, existential anxiety and existence in an age of instability.»