Epistemology in philosophy - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Black, Deborah L.
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Leiden
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Brill
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Although Islamic philosophers do not explicitly recognise a distinct branch of philosophy that they label " epistemology ," they discuss epistemological questions in their development of the theory of demonstrative science laid out by Aristotle (d. 322 B.C.E.) in his Posterior analytics . Epistemological issues also arise in other logical texts, in metaphysics and ethics, and in the accounts of the soul's cognitive operations in psychological texts. Other ancient philosophers, amongst them Plato (d. c.347 B.C.E.), the Greek physician Galen (d. c.216 C.E.), and various