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Epistemology
Epistemology, the theory of knowledge, is the branch of philosophy studying knowledge and justified belief: its definition (justified true belief and the Gettier problem), justification theories (foundationalism, coherentism, reliabilism), skepticism, sources of knowledge, and social and AI epistemology.
Evolutionary epistemology
Evolutionary epistemology, a naturalistic approach coined by Donald Campbell in 1974, applies models from evolutionary biology to knowledge, spanning the evolution of cognitive mechanisms and of scientific theories.
Ignorance
Ignorance: the lack of knowledge or true belief, studied across epistemology (Standard, New, and Normative views), agnotology, deliberate and willful ignorance, formal logic, and statistics.
Intellectualism
Intellectualism: family of philosophical views giving priority to intellect or propositional knowledge; also called rationalism, Kant's metaphysical doctrine, Socrates' virtue-is-knowledge thesis, and Ryle's target in the knowledge-how debate.
Scientia potentia est
Scientia potentia est (also scientia potestas est), Latin for "knowledge is power"; aphorism closest to Bacon's ipsa scientia potestas est (Meditationes Sacrae, 1597), exact form first in Hobbes's 1668 Latin Leviathan, later reworked by Foucault.