What is epistemological beliefs?

Epistemological beliefs is a concept in personal epistemology: Your epistemology — your theory of knowledge — is the meta-schema that governs all others.

Example: A software engineer insists that the only valid knowledge comes from controlled experiments and peer-reviewed studies. They dismiss a colleague's pattern-based intuition about system failures — intuition built from a decade of production incidents — because it 'isn't backed by data.' Their epistemology (only empirical evidence counts as knowledge) is silently filtering out an entire category of legitimate knowing. They don't realize they're running a filter. They think they're being rigorous.

This concept is part of Phase 17 (Meta-Schemas) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for meta-schemas.