ABSTRACT

This study delved into the conflicting views and interpretations of the history of epistemology. In spite of the seemingly contradictory positions, a clear trend can be discerned. The trend moves from a static, passive view of knowledge towards a more adaptive and active one. Mimetics is the field that shows how information units influence and form human beings and impact the social systems to which they belong. Memes, which include semiotic signs out there in the world and objects in the minds spread among human beings. In an ever closely connected and interdependent world, where parts in nature and society increasingly influence each other. It is legitimate to argue that, meme basic unit of reality, ground even the epistemology. This work adopts hermeneutics methods to expound on the thesis of Renaissance Epistemology.