1. Epistemology is one of the main branches of systematic philosophy.

2. It is concerned with the nature, sources, and limits of valid and true knowledge.
3. The subject matter of epistemology is knowledge itself.
4. The term ‘knowledge’ has a number of connotations, but here in philosophy we are
concerned with propositional knowledge, that is, knowledge that such-and-such is true. It
begins with some of the basic questions like, ‘what is knowledge,’ ‘what are the sources
of knowledge?’ ‘What is the certainty of the knowledge that one has?, etc. All these
questions were taken up for discussion from the ancient times and a number of
approaches and views have been put forward.
5. It forms one of the bases of many other disciplines because all other disciplines have
something to do with cognition and even the modern computer which uses artificial
intelligence in some way resembles the human’s capacity to use knowledge. So this
field of philosophy is an area of frequent discussion even to this day and many
thinkers contribute to its growth.