Epistemology is the study of the science of knowledge, and that is how people know things to be true. Ancient Greeks only considered real concepts to be knowledge, not nature. Only knowledge, to the Greeks, was power and freedom, and permanent happiness was in the pursuit of knowledge and the joy of understanding. The Greeks, in general, attached more importance to deduction as a source of knowledge. ... The questions of the ancients were voiced even louder with the discovery that where there seems to be nothing, there is air. ...

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