Epistemology
Discover how epistemology—the study of knowledge and belief—applies to software engineering. Learn to differentiate induction from deduction, recognize biases, and apply first principles thinking for clearer decision-making and building reliable mental models.
What is epistemology?
Epistemology is the study of the nature of knowledge, justification, and the rationality of belief.
Epistemology addresses the question: How do we know what we think we know?
There are many approaches to the study of
Deductive reasoning
Given a base set of general facts, we build up as high as we can to useful general conclusions.
Inductive reasoning
Inductive reasoning is the opposite; we take specific real-world observations and generalize them to general truths. This is problematic in SO many ways, and ...