[{"word":"epistemology","phonetic":"/ɛˌpɪstiːˈmɔlədʒi/","phonetics":[{"text":"/ɛˌpɪstiːˈmɔlədʒi/","audio":""},{"text":"/ɪˌpɪstəˈmɒlədʒi/","audio":"https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/epistemology-uk.mp3","sourceUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12523415"},{"text":"/iˌpɪstəˈmɑlədʒi/","audio":"https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/epistemology-us.mp3","sourceUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=90622275"}],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"The branch of philosophy dealing with the study of knowledge; theory of knowledge, asking such questions as \"What is knowledge?\", \"How is knowledge acquired?\", \"What do people know?\", \"How do we know what we know?\".","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"Some thinkers take the view that, beginning with the work of Descartes, epistemology began to replace metaphysics as the most important area of philosophy."},{"definition":"A particular theory of knowledge.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"In his epistemology, Plato maintains that our knowledge of universal concepts is a kind of recollection."}],"synonyms":["epistemics"],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/epistemology"]}]