Acquiring Knowledge
The second question that will be dealt with is the question of how knowledge is acquired. This area of epistemology covers:
- Issues concerning epistemic distinctions such as that between empirical and non-empirical methods of formulating knowledge.
- Distinguish between synthesis and analysis used as means of proof
- Debates such as the one between empiricists and rationalists.
- What is called "the regress problem"
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“There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)