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The modern form of ontology is transcendental philosophy which becomes epistemology.
How does such a thing arise in modern metaphysics? In that the beingness of beings is thought as presence for the guarantee of representation. Beingness is now objectivity. The question about objectivity, about the possibility of standing over against (namely, over against guaranteeing, calculating representation) is the question about knowability.
But this question is not really meant as the question about the psycho-physical mechanism of the procedure of knowing, but rather about the possibility of the presence of the object in and for knowledge.
"Epistemology" is viewing, theoria, in that the on, thought as object, is questioned with regard to objectivity and what makes objectivity possible (be on).
How does Kant guarantee the metaphysical element of modern metaphysics through the transcendental manner of questioning? In that truth becomes certainty and thus the beingness (ousia) of beings changes to the objectivity of perceptio and cogiatrio of consciousness, of knowledge; knowing and knowledge move to the foreground.
"Epistemology" and what goes under that name is at bottom metaphysics and ontology which is based on truth as the certainty of guaranteed representation.
On the other hand, the interpretation of "epistemology" as the explanation of "knowledge" and as the "theory" of the sciences errs, although this business of guaranteeing is only a consequence of the reinterpretation of Being as objectivity and representedness.
"Epistemology" is the title for the increasing, essential powerlessness of modern metaphysics to know its own essence and the ground of that essence. The talk about the "metaphysics of knowledge" remains within the same misunderstanding. In truth, it is a matter of the metaphysics of the object, that is, of beings as object, of the object for a subject.
The mere reverse side of the empirical-positivistic misinterpretation of epistemology shows itself in the growing dominance of logistics.
trns. from the German by Joan Stambaugh