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epistemology

branch of philosophy studying the nature and scope of knowledge
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Summary

epistemology is a branch of philosophy[1]. epistemology ranks in the top 3% of branch of philosophy entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (43,624 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: core branches of philosophy[3]
  • Subclass of: theoretical philosophy[4], philosophy[5]
  • Commons category: Epistemology[6]
  • Said to be the same as: gnoseology[7], theory of knowledge[8], philosophy of science[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Epistemology[10]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[11], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Tamil Encyclopedia[13], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[14]
  • Topic has template: Template:Epistemology[15], Template:Epistemology sidebar[16]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/tags/epistemology[17], https://physics.stackexchange.com/tags/epistemology[18]
  • Is the study of: knowledge[19], science[20]
  • Practiced by: epistemologist[21]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have[22], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[23]
  • Wikimedia outline: outline of epistemology[24]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Epistemology[25], WikiProject Philosophy of science[26], WikiProject Philosophy[27], WikiProject Religion[28], WikiProject Skepticism[29], WikiProject History of Science[30]

Why It Matters

epistemology has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] epistemology is known by 83 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Related Entities

Adam Weishaupt A. J. Ayer Alvin Plantinga Benedictus de Spinoza Bernard Bolzano Bertrand Russell Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée Centro de Lógica, Epistemologia e História da Ciência David Hume Edgar Morin Edmund Husserl Francis Bacon Frank P. Ramsey Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling George Berkeley Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Hans-Georg Gadamer Henri Bergson Hermann Cohen Immanuel Kant Jan Janský Jean-Paul Sartre John Langshaw Austin John Locke John L. Pollock Julien Offray de La Mettrie Karl Jaspers Karl Popper Louis Althusser Ludwig Feuerbach

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Gsso id → 008133
    Sitelink count → 153
    Wikipedia languages → ['abstract', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'anp', 'ar', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'awa', 'a
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Gsso id: 008133, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/157144889|epistemology (#157144889)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6077|Gender, Sex, and Sex"
  2. 12w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopaedia herder concept id → Epistemología
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ Encyclopaedia herder concept id: Epistemología"
  3. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → yjk8B
    De agostini id → epistemologìa
    Hrvatska enciklopedija id → 18148
    Wolfram language entity code → Entity["Concept", "Epistemology::c9xv5"]
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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  4. 14w ago · HelloImSteven · 2026-07-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopaedia herder concept id → Epistemología
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Encyclopaedia herder concept id: Epistemolog%C3%ADa, Matched to #mix'n'match [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/34789663|Epistemología (#34789663)]] for {{P|9286}}"
  5. 15w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oxford classical dictionary id → 8175
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Oxford classical dictionary id: 8175, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/107285733|knowledge, theories of (#107285733)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4102|"
  6. 17w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0000231-teorie-poznani
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  7. 19w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-05-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Tamil Encyclopedia +2
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  8. 20w ago · XeNivalys · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14483 → e/epistemologia
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14483: e/epistemologia, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1779856745649"
  9. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Said to be the same as → gnoseology, theory of knowledge, philosophy of science
    Gnd id → 4070914-0
    Topic has template → Template:Epistemology, Template:Epistemology sidebar
    Is the study of → knowledge, science
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|14 */ Yso id: 15994, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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