What Is Epistemic Cognition

question 66

Multiple Choice

What is epistemic cognition?

• A) the ways in which individuals understand the nature of knowledge and how they arrive at ideas, beliefs, and conclusions
• B) polar reasoning in which knowledge and accounts of phenomena are viewed as either right or wrong with no in-between
• C) knowledge is viewed as relative, dependent on the situation and thinker
• D) reasoning that synthesizes contradictions among perspectives

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