What is the Meaning & Definition of epistemology

The epistemology is the part of philosophy which deals exclusively with human knowledge in general. I.e. to the epistemology does not the knowledge of particular or specific issues fit as either astronomy or geography but its focus puts it on the generality of knowledge, where it comes from and how impacts on people's lives. Its name comes from the Greek words gnosis and logos meaning knowledge and faculty meet, respectively, and back to the ancient Greece, geographical landmark at this point on everything inherent issues of knowledge and philosophy. Because from the go intrinsic to knowledge problems were a concern and an occupation of the philosophy, Greek, and of course, of the great Greek philosophers who, in those years, stood out, such is the case of Plato, Aristotle, to name some of the most popular, but exceptions should be mentioned that all philosophers have dealt with knowledge or epistemology.
Philosophy basically focused since the most remote times in study, addressing, elucidate various kinds of problems and issues that make the life of human beings, the existence, the reason, communication and of course knowledge. And then in that investigate constant above all, knowledge, since the initiation of science occupies an estelarisimo place. And when philosophy is systematized it gave custody of that issue to the epistemology and thus is dedicated exclusively to reflect on the origin and essence of the Act of knowing.
Most like to say that the epistemology is the general theory of knowledge and as such is basically proposed to reflect the correspondence between the subject that cognises and the object that is the object of that Act of knowing. As the object to know is external to the reason for the person, the mind of that individual will deal with forming a concept about it.
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