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About Epistemology: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Knowledge:

"Epistemology" is the philosophical science of knowledge, the metaphysics or ontology of knowing. The present volume is meant to be an introductory manual in epistemology (also called "philosophy of knowledge" or "gnoseology"). It is written from a realist perspective that affirms the primacy of being over thought and the dependence of thought upon being, and also emphasizes that our knowing powers are able to reach extra-mental things, in opposition to the various immanentist idealisms and phenomenalisms which imprison the knower within his subjective consciousness and its representations, incapable of gnoseological and ontological transcenden