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Before a discipline can begin its work, it must form a definite concept of the subject matter it intends to investigate. Any inquiry must be preceded by some kind of definition of the area that is to be studied. For we must be quite clear at the outset as to what we are going to deal with, what questions we hope to answer. Hence the first thing we must ask ourselves is: What actually is knowledge?
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Schlick, M. (1974). Knowing in Everyday Life. In: General Theory of Knowledge. LEP Library of Exact Philosophy, vol 11. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-3099-5_2
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