Epistemology is a branch of philosophy that
investigates the origin, nature, methods, and limits of human knowledge; the
study of knowledge and justified belief.
I have just come across the word in ‘Galileo's
Dream’ by Kim Stanley Robinson – a brilliant book which has given me, altogether,
nineteen new words and a lot of quotations.
And that is not counting a number of words in Italian or of a very scientific
nature that I didn’t look up.
