Terminology of Knowledge and the Possibility of its Analysis

The terminology of knowledge and the possibility of its true definition and analysis are among important and difficult discussions in contemporary epistemology, dealt with here. On the one hand, for the Muslim thinkers, an axiomatic concept does not need any definition, and even its true definition is impossible. On the other hand, one may ask the following questions: How have many of those who regard this concept as axiomatic, philosophically define and analyze “knowledge” in their discussion of the “ontology of science”? And is defining the concept of knowledge consistent with regarding it as axiomatic? To answer, we have presented two solutions and, in the selected solution, we conclude that the ontological view of knowledge is different from an epistemological view of it. Those who have regarded the concept of knowledge as axiomatic, and at the same time, have defined it have attempted to explain the truth of knowledge, acquiring its nature as well as its essential components or requisites. In this way, the inconsistency of “regarding the concept of knowledge as axiomatic” and “regarding its nature as theoretical” is resolved.