Epistemology is the study of knowledge.
It asks basic questions about knowing things.
What is knowledge itself?
How do we know what we know?
How is knowledge different from just guessing?
Where does knowledge come from?
We get knowledge from senses, reason, and other people.
It also asks if our ideas are true.
Knowledge needs reasons to be believed.
This field looks at what makes knowing possible.
It studies how we know things exist.
It considers if we can really know anything for sure.