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The Branches of Philosophy

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Philosophy's core branches: metaphysics studies reality, epistemology studies knowledge, value theory studies the good and the right, and logic studies reasoning itself.

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"Do we have free will?"—metaphysics. "How could we know?"—epistemology. "Does it matter morally?"—value theory.

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The branches overlap constantly. One question can live in three of them at once.