I found a new word, and a new field of study, in a Facebook article today. Epistemology is basically the study of how we know what we know. It is concerned with how we separate “truth” from everything else. This is a topic very much in my mind these days, as I am sure it is most everyone’s else’s mind. A common question that comes up in conversation is “how could they possibly believe that?” It doesn’t matter much who “they” are, we are all scratching our heads wondering how you can take obvious “facts” and end up with “that” belief. We are all turning into philosophers of epistemology, trying to make sense of what is happening to so deeply divide us.