criteriology

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noun

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

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Meanings

nouncriteriology (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehuman sciencesThe study of the validity of reasoning and the criteria necessary to achieve knowledge.

    But it seems otherwise with reasoning as viewed by criteriology.

    1991, Ernest Sosa, Knowledge in Perspective: Selected Essays in Epistemology, →ISBN, page 129
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    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.

    1996, Luciano Floridi, Scepticism Ant the Foundation of Epistemology, →ISBN

    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.

    2015, Paul Rigby, The Theology of Augustine's Confessions, →ISBN, page 17

Origin

From criterion + -ology.

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