criteriology

English

Etymology

From 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.

Derived terms

• criteriologic
• criteriological