Epistemology can be understood as :
Theory of knowledge
Epistemology (from the Greek episteme, knowledge, and logos, study) is the branch of philosophy and social science that studies the nature, sources, scope and validity of knowledge: what counts as knowledge, how we know it and what makes it reliable.
In sociology, epistemological debates ask whether social reality can be studied through the methods of natural science (positivism) or requires interpretive understanding (Weber's verstehen, phenomenology). It is therefore commonly summarised as the theory of knowledge.
The basis of methodology is a looser phrase, methods and techniques are the tools of data collection, and framework of data analysis concerns analytic procedures. Epistemology is concerned with the foundations of knowing itself, which in turn guides methodology.
Hence, the answer is Theory of knowledge.
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...................... is the philosophical study of being.
