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Meaning of criteriology | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

The study of the validity of reasoning and the criteria necessary to achieve knowledge.

uncountable

Examples

“But it seems otherwise with reasoning as viewed by criteriology.”
“According to Mercier, criteriology should demonstrate the fallacy of two forms of scepticism: one that casts doubts on each of the acts of the human reason and one that casts doubts on the very possibility of arriving at a knowledge of the truth.”
“In the other kind of knowledge, reflection develops a criteriology of the divine to judge whether or not consciousness is testifying to the true God or some phantasm of the divine.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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