the ugliness of most modern art, it is obvious that aesthetics has been much ignored in our generation. Epistemology While metaphysics decides the issue of whether there is any truth to find, epistemology asks how we know the truth. This question has been kicked around for several thousand years and a general consensus has been reached. There are several different methods by which truth can be discovered. While a complete overview of epistemology would examine retroduction, abduction, and adduction