Antedating of "Epistemology"

[Fred Shapiro]

epistemology (OED 1856)

1847 _Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature_ Nov. 306 ff. (American
Periodical Series)  The title of one of the principal works of Fichte is
"_Wissenschaftslehre_," which, after the analogy of _technology_ ... we
render _epistemology_.

Fred Shapiro


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