criteriology

English

Etymology

criterion +‎ -ology

Noun

criteriology (uncountable)

  1. (philosophy) The study of the validity of reasoning and the criteria necessary to achieve knowledge.
    • 1991, Ernest Sosa, Knowledge in Perspective: Selected Essays in Epistemology, →ISBN, page 129:
      But it seems otherwise with reasoning as viewed by criteriology.
    • 1996, Luciano Floridi, Scepticism Ant the Foundation of Epistemology, →ISBN:
      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.
    • 2015, Paul Rigby, The Theology of Augustine's Confessions, →ISBN, page 17:
      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.
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