Epistemology

What is epistemology?

Epistemology is the study of the nature of knowledge, justification, and the rationality of belief.

Epistemology addresses the question: How do we know what we think we know?

There are many approaches to the study of certaintyCertainty is the epistemic property that a person has no rational grounds for doubting a particular belief or set of beliefs., so I will blithely ignore most of them and contrast two: Induction vs. Deduction.

Deductive reasoning

Given a base set of general facts, we build up as high as we can to useful general conclusions.

Inductive reasoning

Inductive reasoning is the opposite; we take specific real-world observations ...