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PHL 215: Principal Issues With Epistemology
Principal Issues with Epistemology
Earnell Branson
PHL/215
June 18, 2012
Dr. Anne M. Edwards Principal Issues with Epistemology
Society has attempted to decipher what is real. The idea of what is real and what is understood has been a problem for societies. The different societies and cultures believed in other beings such as different God’s. Greek society was a leader in worshipping and believing in God’s that perceived to be real in their minds and culture. Worshipping these God’s begun to have other’s question if these God’s were real and gave birth to skepticism. The purpose of this paper is to examine the principal issues related to Epistemology.
Philosophy has many branches but the one branch concerned with the theory of knowledge
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