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This completes our brief survey of some central concepts in epistemology, such as the concepts of epistemic reasons, knowledge, and truth. As you can imagine, there is much more to be said on all of the topics we touched on. The suggested readings provide further and deeper treatments of many of those topics, if you are interested. Having shown that scientific knowledge most often involves some form of inductive reasoning from evidence, we next go one step deeper and turn to a fundamental question in the philosophy of science: What is the nature of evidence, and how can we access evidence?