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r/epistemology
Epistemology
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Epistemology is the branch of philosophy which studies knowledge. Conventionally, knowledge has been defined as true, justified belief, though this has increasingly come under critique. Major approaches include empiricism, rationalism, skepticism, pragmatism, and relativism.
What is Epistemology?
Why it's the study of knowledge!
- Check out this article from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
What should you post?
- Academic Papers relating to epistemology.
- Original epistemic research.
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Total Words in Subreddit
98,846
Total Words in Reddit
119,924,722,855
Rank↕ | Word↕ | Occurrences in Subreddit | Total Occurrences | Rate in Subreddit (per 1M words) | Rate in Reddit (per 1M words) | Ratio (Sub Rate / Reddit Rate) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | 158 | 33,591 | 1598.4 | 0.3 | 5706.68 | |
| #2 | 42 | 15,119 | 424.9 | 0.1 | 3370.36 | |
| #3 | 40 | 18,546 | 404.7 | 0.2 | 2616.73 | |
| #4 | 44 | 25,059 | 445.1 | 0.2 | 2130.29 | |
| #5 | 41 | 23,895 | 414.8 | 0.2 | 2081.74 | |
| #6 | 48 | 50,459 | 485.6 | 0.4 | 1154.12 | |
| #7 | 39 | 51,208 | 394.6 | 0.4 | 924.01 | |
| #8 | 65 | 92,747 | 657.6 | 0.8 | 850.28 | |
| #9 | 33 | 55,896 | 333.9 | 0.5 | 716.28 | |
| #10 | 37 | 65,537 | 374.3 | 0.5 | 684.96 | |
| #11 | 103 | 215,748 | 1042.0 | 1.8 | 579.22 | |
| #12 | 80 | 264,380 | 809.3 | 2.2 | 367.12 | |
| #13 | 66 | 268,616 | 667.7 | 2.2 | 298.10 | |
| #14 | 88 | 391,007 | 890.3 | 3.3 | 273.05 | |
| #15 | 33 | 167,028 | 333.9 | 1.4 | 239.70 | |
| #16 | 50 | 285,968 | 505.8 | 2.4 | 212.13 | |
| #17 | 67 | 413,486 | 677.8 | 3.4 | 196.59 | |
| #18 | 31 | 229,170 | 313.6 | 1.9 | 164.12 | |
| #19 | 46 | 341,095 | 465.4 | 2.8 | 163.62 | |
| #20 | 79 | 621,490 | 799.2 | 5.2 | 154.22 | |
| #21 | 257 | 2,178,410 | 2600.0 | 18.2 | 143.13 | |
| #22 | 55 | 471,763 | 556.4 | 3.9 | 141.45 | |
| #23 | 171 | 1,564,256 | 1730.0 | 13.0 | 132.63 | |
| #24 | 76 | 723,229 | 768.9 | 6.0 | 127.49 | |
| #25 | 35 | 428,420 | 354.1 | 3.6 | 99.12 | |
| #26 | 97 | 1,252,951 | 981.3 | 10.4 | 93.93 | |
| #27 | 36 | 569,487 | 364.2 | 4.7 | 76.70 | |
| #28 | 492 | 7,794,457 | 4977.4 | 65.0 | 76.58 | |
| #29 | 33 | 542,016 | 333.9 | 4.5 | 73.87 | |
| #30 | 84 | 1,464,874 | 849.8 | 12.2 | 69.57 | |
| #31 | 104 | 1,948,978 | 1052.1 | 16.3 | 64.74 | |
| #32 | 94 | 1,809,541 | 951.0 | 15.1 | 63.02 | |
| #33 | 38 | 798,698 | 384.4 | 6.7 | 57.72 | |
| #34 | 99 | 2,149,570 | 1001.6 | 17.9 | 55.88 | |
| #35 | 38 | 885,678 | 384.4 | 7.4 | 52.05 | |
| #36 | 31 | 731,098 | 313.6 | 6.1 | 51.44 | |
| #37 | 40 | 946,647 | 404.7 | 7.9 | 51.27 | |
| #38 | 100 | 2,368,978 | 1011.7 | 19.8 | 51.21 | |
| #39 | 46 | 1,099,336 | 465.4 | 9.2 | 50.77 | |
| #40 | 38 | 963,502 | 384.4 | 8.0 | 47.85 | |
| #41 | 171 | 4,395,741 | 1730.0 | 36.7 | 47.20 | |
| #42 | 61 | 1,591,232 | 617.1 | 13.3 | 46.51 | |
| #43 | 32 | 918,074 | 323.7 | 7.7 | 42.29 | |
| #44 | 48 | 1,380,775 | 485.6 | 11.5 | 42.18 | |
| #45 | 263 | 8,295,416 | 2660.7 | 69.2 | 38.47 | |
| #46 | 42 | 1,386,804 | 424.9 | 11.6 | 36.74 | |
| #47 | 30 | 1,017,359 | 303.5 | 8.5 | 35.78 | |
| #48 | 88 | 3,131,224 | 890.3 | 26.1 | 34.10 | |
| #49 | 67 | 2,508,641 | 677.8 | 20.9 | 32.40 | |
| #50 | 45 | 1,736,512 | 455.3 | 14.5 | 31.44 |
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