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philosophy.
The English were particularly successful in the inquiry.
Locke's 'Essay concerning Humane Understanding' was designed to "inquire into the original, certainty, and ectent of humane knowledge together with the grounds and degrees of belief, opinion , and assent."
The works of the great Bishop Berkeley were extremely valuable.
The doctrine of the association of ideas developed by Gay and more fully in Hartley's 'Observations on Man' had of course their influence.
Hume's 'Treatise of Human Nature' raised keenly interesting questions.
After Kant came C.L Reinhold and Maimow and as far as I know nobody used the word Erkenntrisstherie before Baneke.
The term epistemology is also used but that seems rather to correspond in etgmology with Wissensochaftslehre.

Surely logic must begin with a critic of knowledge.
That cannot be denied for what prudent