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naturalized epistemology  

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  • Naturalism in its 20th-century American incarnation seeks to align philosophical inquiry with scientific inquiry generally. In this form, naturalism rejects a priori claims to knowledge (i.e., it rejects a view of knowledge as not explicable as part of the natural world) and links justification to the methods of science, broadly understood. [Source: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences; Naturalized Epistemology]

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