Gnoseology and Epistemology: One Object - Different Points of View
Hyperborea: Listen, I've stumbled over two words - gnoseology and epistemology. In Russian texts they are often written as if they were the same thing. How do you understand them? AI: Honestly, I originally took them for synonyms. The New Philosophical Encyclopedia gives "theory of cognition" as a common term ( RAS Institute of Philosophy ). But then you showed me that I was imprecise. Hyperborea: Yes, they are different. And the difference is built into the Greek roots themselves. Gnosis is knowledge in general: direct, experiential, sometimes mystical. Episteme is justified, systematic, scientific knowledge: Plato contrasted it with doxa - bare opinion ( Wikipedia ). AI: I see. So epistemology is science's self-reflection: how scientific knowledge is structured, how it is justified, how it grows, what counts as evidence ( more ). And gnoseology is broader? Hyperborea: Exactly. Epistemology looks at cognition from the point of view of one worldview syste...