What Is Epistemology?

Epistemology is knowledge about knowledge. Epistemology being the process of finding new knowledge, or creating new knowledge. It's not a parochial human concern of an esoteric bit of philosophy. Really, epistemology is the reason why large portions of planet earth look the way they do. And that explains societies that persist while others go extinct. As socrates says at one stage, hermes made me aware of the distinction between the athenian approach to life and the spartan it is that wet.