(September 18, 2018 at 1:41 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:Quote:Ontological subjectivity does not preclude epistemic objectivity.
Can someone explain to me in layman’s terms (if possible) the definitions of these two terms and how they’re related to each other? I’d like follow this discussion and I’ve been trying to do research, but I’m not like, totally smert like you guys, and it’s going over my head. 😭. Thanks in advance for any scraps so generously thrown my way! 😁
The difference is between what something is and how you know about it.
Ontology studies what it means to exist and the nature of beings.
Epistemology is the study of what it means to know something and how you know what you know.
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