epistemological assumptions

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epistemological
adjective
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/ɪˌpɪs.tə.məˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us
/ɪˌpɪs.tə.məˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
relating to the part of philosophy that is about the study of how we ...
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assumption
noun
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/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/us
/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/
something that you accept as true without question ...
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Section 2 outlines the epistemological assumptions and deficiencies of the "uncertainty reduction" argument.
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But many social scientists who would not accept the ontological and epistemological assumptions of positivism would accept accounts invoking generalizations par ticipants are not aware of making.
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Because of the different epistemological assumptions of these contrasting approaches, it was argued that it was not possible for quantitative and qualitative methods to be combined within studies.
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The authors illustrated how the epistemological assumptions of the participating women were intimately linked to their perceptions of themselves and their relationship to their world.
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None of his theorizations was accomplished without him questioning, without complacency or self-indulgence his own epistemological assumptions.
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These works offer an analysis and criticism of the legal, political, moral, and epistemological assumptions that underlie much of modern thought.
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Although subsequent writers have emphasized different issues, explicit discussion of philosophical and epistemological assumptions has now become common.
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Then it develops its central claim: that all periods of history have possessed certain underlying epistemological assumptions that determined what was acceptable as, for example, scientific discourse.
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Phenomenography's research object has the character of knowledge; therefore its ontological assumptions are also epistemological assumptions.
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A world view's truth criterion roughly corresponds to its epistemological assumptions, or views about the nature of knowledge and truth (e.g., whether it is discovered or constructed).
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