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Philosophy is expected to give answers to three basic questions: What can we know? What may we hope? What shall we do? The theory of knowledge or epistemology deals with the first of these.
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Beckmann, M.J. (1998). An Introduction to the Economic Study of Knowledge. In: Galata, R., Küchenhoff, H. (eds) Econometrics in Theory and Practice. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-47027-1_7
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