Question

Explain the following topics:

1. The Nature, Sources and Limitations of Knowledge

2. What Is Science?

3. How Epistemological Orientation Shapes and Determines One's View of the World.

Answer 1

Some points to consider.

1. Knowledge is attained through two main processes, the first is through one's senses, that is, by perceiving the world and its many principles through one's sense organs, and then taking this accumulated data and processing it through one's critical reasoning and stringent cognitive properties. The nature of knowledge is vast and all encompassing, anything and everything that one comes across is a form of knowledge, and the limitations of attaining this knowledge are the very same faculties that we utilize in the first place to amass it - our perception.

2. Science is anything that is predictive in nature, that is, one can chart down its trajectory through study. And the second is that science is empirical, that is, it can be observed, studied and researched.

3. Epistemological orientation is essentially when a person takes all of the following aforementioned things into consideration and makes a judgement from there on. This heavily influences the way one looks at the world and perceives it. As one depends on their mental faculties to reach conclusions on the validity of their opinions.