Principles of Epistemology as Related to Measurement

Abstract Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that is devoted to the study of the nature of knowing and knowledge. Concerns of epistemology include how it is possible to know anything, and to have certainty that what one apprehends is as it appears to be. Epistemology differs from ontology in that ontology concerns understanding what things are rather than how they are experienced and known. Epistemology is relevant to the study of measurement because measurement is the process of gaining knowledge of some aspect of things or phenomena through application of appropriate instruments.