Criteriology

Quick meaning: Criteriology is a noun meaning (philosophy) The study of the validity of reasoning and the criteria necessary to achieve knowledge.

Meaning

(philosophy) The study of the validity of reasoning and the criteria necessary to achieve knowledge.

Example Sentences

But it seems otherwise with reasoning as viewed by criteriology.

In the other kind of knowledge, reflection develops a criteriology of the divine to judge whether or not consciousness is testifying to the true God or some phantasm of the divine.

According to Mercier, criteriology should demonstrate the fallacy of two forms of scepticism: one that casts doubts on each of the acts of the human reason and one that casts doubts on the very possibility of arriving at a knowledge of the truth.

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Related dictionary entries include logic, philosophy, rationalism, metareasoning, problematology, empiriocriticism.

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