The heart of the "epistemological turn" was:

A. Descartes' method of inquiry.

B. making questions of epistemology logically prior to questions of metaphysics.

C. realizing that questions of being take precedence over questions of knowing.

D. Leibniz's criteria of truth and certainty.
E. Cartesian doubt.


Answer: B

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