criteriology en · NOUN
Etymology
From criterion + -ology.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The study of the validity of reasoning and the criteria necessary to achieve knowledge.
According to Mercier, criteriology should demonstrate the fallacy of two forms of scepticism: one that casts doubts on each of the acts of the human reason and one that casts doubts on the very possibility of arriving at a knowledge of the truth.
1996, Luciano Floridi, Scepticism Ant the Foundation of Epistemology, →ISBN:In the other kind of knowledge, reflection develops a criteriology of the divine to judge whether or not consciousness is testifying to the true God or some phantasm of the divine.
2015, Paul Rigby, The Theology of Augustine's Confessions, →ISBN, page 17:But it seems otherwise with reasoning as viewed by criteriology.
1991, Ernest Sosa, Knowledge in Perspective: Selected Essays in Epistemology, →ISBN, page 129: