Skepticism is part of epistemology and came around after the death of Aristotle. The skeptics argued that nothing can be known for certainty. Stoic Antipater raised objection to the skeptics and theorized that skeptics are denying knowledge. Carneades, a member of an academy founded by Plato, took this theory further and said that skeptics theorizing of knowledge are not actually theorizing, but using it as an argumentative strategy. Per Carneades, a skeptic does not try to prove that they know nothing, but assume that they know nothing (epistemology - The history of epistemology). Epistemology and metaphysics come from different backgrounds but ultimately they both fall under philosophy. When it comes down to philosophy, dialectics is how learning happens. While epistemology studies what is truth, metaphysics studies what is real (Social
Skepticism is part of epistemology and came around after the death of Aristotle. The skeptics argued that nothing can be known for certainty. Stoic Antipater raised objection to the skeptics and theorized that skeptics are denying knowledge. Carneades, a member of an academy founded by Plato, took this theory further and said that skeptics theorizing of knowledge are not actually theorizing, but using it as an argumentative strategy. Per Carneades, a skeptic does not try to prove that they know nothing, but assume that they know nothing (epistemology - The history of epistemology). Epistemology and metaphysics come from different backgrounds but ultimately they both fall under philosophy. When it comes down to philosophy, dialectics is how learning happens. While epistemology studies what is truth, metaphysics studies what is real (Social