What's the difference between epistemology and knowledge?

Epistemology


Definition:

  • (n.) The theory or science of the method or grounds of knowledge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This continuing influence of Nazi medicine raises profound questions for the epistemology and morality of medicine.
  • (2) And Popperian epistemology is not widely known, let alone understood well enough to be applied.
  • (3) The epistemological status of health science, natural science, and clinical knowledge is explored.
  • (4) Spence advocates the gathering of brute data while denying or downplaying the epistemological value of theorizing and of interpretive understandings.
  • (5) The main objective is an evaluation of the underlying epistemological robustness of the field and the cogency of its claims to possess knowledge.
  • (6) I assert that this state of biological psychiatry is due to its violation of an epistemological criterion of rationality, i.e., the relevance criterion; that is, contemporary biological psychiatry is irrational as it adopts a conception irrelevant to the psychobiological domain.
  • (7) In the final section on the practice of interpretation, the question is raised as to how the introduction of the method of reconstruction affects the debate about the epistemological status of psychoanalysis as a science.
  • (8) suggest the importance of paying greater attention to epistemological and theoretical principles when making methodological choices.
  • (9) Grunbaum has emphasized this epistemological weakness in the etiological position.
  • (10) It is proposed that the confusion can be diminished by understanding the relationship between the two meanings, which are here distinguished as epistemology (meaning 1) and epistemology (meaning 2) respectively.
  • (11) The choice of this point in time of course involves important consequences, on the one hand, sociological and institutional, epistemological and conceptual on the other.
  • (12) Psychology, belonging to the general class of social sciences, is subject to two kinds of epistemological obstacles: a) those stemming from "common sense", born and nourished in the naïve, day-to-day experience, and being used as a general canon for usual as well as entirely new situations; they reach the status of a pre-critical "knowing", based solely on beliefs, and advocating to provide the grounds for our opinion on singular and general subjects; and b) those stemming from the "speculative discourse", understood as a system of notions encircling themselves and pretending to have an analogical reference to real objects, when analogy only actualizes objects that are absent...
  • (13) In countries where biomedicine developed from earlier medical knowledge, medical pluralism provides unusual cultural parameters and perspectives on biomedical epistemologies.
  • (14) The psychotherapeutic implications of Husserl's method of inquiry are examined within the epistemological framework of Kuhn, Piaget, and Popper, which provides a model for both psychopathology and change in psychotherapy.
  • (15) Non-compliance is not only an epistemological error but a biological impossibility.
  • (16) As research disciplines differ from each other in terms of their epistemological and theoretical assumptions, they differ in the kinds of data they produce.
  • (17) Epistemological comparison reveals congruence between the reality-defusing though rules of new science, Batesonian evolution, and ecosystemic thinking with families and family therapy.
  • (18) The transformation will require a change in the epistemology of medicine and an educational process that encourages reflection and growth of self-knowledge.
  • (19) The docs I like are irremediably hybrid – a mixture of authorial personality, cod epistemology, appropriated or created history and whatever seems current and interesting.
  • (20) By establishing a broad understanding of the problem of knowledge, this new view of epistemology is developed within the idiom of each psychiatric approach.

Knowledge


Definition:

  • (v. i.) The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance; cognition.
  • (v. i.) That which is or may be known; the object of an act of knowing; a cognition; -- chiefly used in the plural.
  • (v. i.) That which is gained and preserved by knowing; instruction; acquaintance; enlightenment; learning; scholarship; erudition.
  • (v. i.) That familiarity which is gained by actual experience; practical skill; as, a knowledge of life.
  • (v. i.) Scope of information; cognizance; notice; as, it has not come to my knowledge.
  • (v. i.) Sexual intercourse; -- usually preceded by carnal; as, carnal knowledge.
  • (v. t.) To acknowledge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the past, the interpretation of the medical findings was hampered by a lack of knowledge of normal anatomy and genital flora in the nonabused prepubertal child.
  • (2) Over the past decade the use of monoclonal antibodies has greatly advanced our knowledge of the biological properties and heterogeneity that exist within human tumours, and in particular in lung cancer.
  • (3) Possibilities to achieve this both in the curative and the preventive field are restricted mainly due to the insufficient knowledge of their etiopathogenesis.
  • (4) Their significance in adding to the doctor's knowledge of the patient is delineated.
  • (5) The results obtained further knowledge of the anatomy of the nuclei, specifically the areas used for the prosthesis implantation and the underlying tissue.
  • (6) This paper presents findings from a survey on knowledge of and attitudes and practices towards AIDS among currently married Zimbabwean men conducted between April and June 1988.
  • (7) In South Africa, health risks associated with exposure to toxic waste sites need to be viewed in the context of current community health concerns, competing causes of disease and ill-health, and the relative lack of knowledge about environmental contamination and associated health effects.
  • (8) Recognition of this deficiency in our knowledge spurred a belated explosion of research that began with an exploration of the fine structure of the mesothelium.
  • (9) The problem-based system provides a unique integration of acquiring theoretical knowledge in the basic sciences through clinical problem solving which was highly rated in all analysed phases.
  • (10) Developmental research is used to transform existing knowledge into applied programs.
  • (11) Only an extensive knowledge of the various mechanisms and pharmacologic agents that can be used to prevent or treat these adverse reactions will allow the physician to approach the problem scientifically and come to a reasonable solution for the patient.
  • (12) Greater knowledge about these disorders and closer working relationships with mental health specialists should lead to decreased morbidity and mortality.
  • (13) Knowledge of these lesions could form the basis for establishing a useful and rational therapy for such cases.
  • (14) By using an interactive computer program to assess knowledge of the American Cancer Society cancer screening guidelines in a group of 306 family physicians, we found that knowledge of this subject continues to leave room for improvement.
  • (15) It is emphasized that the knowledge of the behavior and regulation of SO is incomplete and that this should be remembered when criteria for SOD are applied.
  • (16) Contrary to current knowledge there was no statistically significant difference in the velocities of nerve conduction on the left and right sides of these subjects.
  • (17) All variables except perceived personal risk were found to be significantly related to the intention to provide medical care although knowledge showed the weakest relationship (Odds Ratio = 2.14).
  • (18) It is argued that exposure to a linguistic structure that induces the child to operate on that structure can lead to a reorganization of linguistic knowledge even though no direct feedback has been given as to its correct adult interpretation.
  • (19) Although an unequivocal decision is not possible from existing knowledge, psychomotor or complex partial seizures of temporal lobe epilepsy would be the most tenable diagnosis.
  • (20) In addition to a better understanding of pathogenic mechanisms associated with autoimmunity, the knowledge of these disease-predisposing genes is expected to permit a better classification of often complex syndromes as well as the design of new treatments.