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認識論 (ninshikiron) Japanese meaning: epistemology | Kotomora

認にん識しき論ろん

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Meanings

1

Philosophical term for the study of knowledge, its nature, sources, and limits.

認にん識しき論ろんは哲てつ学がくの一いち分

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です

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Epistemology is a branch of philosophy.

彼かれは認にん識しき論ろんについての論ろん文ぶんを書かいている。

He is writing a paper on epistemology.

Kanji

認acknowledge, witness, discern
識discriminating, know, write
論argument, discourse

Related words

存そん在ざい論ろん
存在論 (ontology) deals with the nature of being, while 認識論 (epistemology) deals with the nature of knowledge.

Word family

進しん化か論ろん的てき認にん識しき論ろん
evolutionary epistemology

Built from

認にん識しき+論ろん

Etymology

Compound of 認識 (にんしき, 'cognition, recognition') and 論 (ろん, 'theory, argument'). The term is a calque from Western philosophy, likely from German 'Erkenntnistheorie' or English 'epistemology'.