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Hierarchical epistemology is a theory of knowledge which posits that beings have different access to reality depending on their ontological rank.^[1]

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↑ Ferrer, Jorge N. (2002). Revisioning transpersonal theory: a participatory vision of human spirituality. State Univ. of New York Press. pp. 76. ISBN 978-0-7914-5167-0.

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Epistemologists	Thomas Aquinas Augustine of Hippo William Alston Robert Audi A. J. Ayer George Berkeley Laurence BonJour René Descartes John Dewey Fred Dretske Edmund Gettier Alvin Goldman Nelson Goodman Paul Grice David Hume Immanuel Kant Søren Kierkegaard Saul Kripke David Lewis John Locke G. E. Moore Robert Nozick Alvin Plantinga Plato Duncan Pritchard Hilary Putnam Thomas Reid Gilbert Ryle Susanna Siegel Socrates Ernest Sosa P. F. Strawson Willard Van Orman Quine Bertrand Russell Baruch Spinoza Timothy Williamson Ludwig Wittgenstein Nicholas Wolterstorff Vienna Circle
Theories	Coherentism Constructivist epistemology Contextualism Descriptive knowledge Determinism Empiricism Evolutionary epistemology Fallibilism Feminist epistemology Fideism Foundationalism Genetic epistemology Hierarchical epistemology Holism Infinitism Innatism Internalism and externalism Naïve realism Naturalized epistemology Phenomenalism Positivism Procedural knowledge Reductionism Reliabilism Representative realism Rationalism Skepticism Theory of forms Transcendental idealism Uniformitarianism
Concepts	A priori knowledge Analysis Analytic–synthetic distinction Belief Causality Common sense Exploratory thought Gettier problem Justification Knowledge Induction Objectivity Privileged access Problem of induction Problem of other minds Perception Proposition Regress argument Simplicity Speculative reason Truth more...
Related articles	Outline of epistemology Alethiology Faith and rationality Formal epistemology Meta-epistemology Philosophy of perception Philosophy of science Social epistemology
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Hierarchical epistemology

Topic: Philosophy

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