Epistemology

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that studies everything related to knowledge. The study of epistemology focuses on our means or ways of acquiring knowledge and how can we differentiate between truth and falsehood. Epistemology studies the problems having to do with the creation and dissemination of knowledge in many particular areas. For epistemology, there are various types of knowledge: when you want to know how to do something, when you want to know about someone, and when you want to know a place. Such knowledge mention before is in the epistemological interest as well, but the main focus on knowledge that epistemology has is the knowledge of propositions, these propositions are affirmations about the origin, the characteristics, the reason of many things in our nature, so we can say that false propositions cannot be knowledge. Therefore, knowledge needs truth. And something the same proposition may need is belief in order to exist. Why would someone support a proposition without believing in it? Knowledge needs belief to. And if you believe something is true you must be ready to give a justification of why it’s true. Knowledge in order to be true, it need a justification to support it. Some questions, epistemology is concerned with maybe be: what can we know? How can we know it? Why do we know something, but no others? Can knowledge be certain? what is necessary and which are the conditions for knowledge? What are its sources? What is the structure of knowledge? What are its limits? And many other questions related to knowledge and all about it. Epistemology is important because it is fundamental to how we think. If we didn’t have means of understanding, we have no coherent path for our thinking, how we acquire knowledge, how we rely upon our senses, and how we develop concepts in our mind. Epistemology is the most important thing in order to have a good type of thinking and reasoning. As we know that epistemology studies knowledge, knowledge has different elements. Knowing subject, everything that thinks and can acquire knowledge; known object, the thing that is a part of our reality and we need to get knowledge from; and the Image or Idea, knowledge.