位置4的问题 Which of the following questions are epistemological rather than metaphysical questions? Are human beings free? Does God exist? Is there an afterlife? How is the existence of an individual thing different from the existence of the totality of all things?What does it mean to know something? How is knowledge different from belief or opinion?

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The question asks us to identify which queries are epistemological rather than metaphysical in nature. 
Option 1: 'Are human beings free? Does God exist? Is there an afterlife?' These questions are classic metaphysical topics about existence, reality, and the nature of being, not about knowledge or justification of claims. 
Option 2: 'How is the existence of an individual thing different from the existence of the totality of all things?' This asks about the nature and status of existence itself, a central metaphysical concern, not about knowledge or justification. 
Option 3: 'What does it mean to know something? How is knowledge different from belief or opinion?' This pair directly targets the theory of knowledge—definitions, justification, and the nature of knowing—which are the core concerns of epistemology. It examines the conditions under which beliefs count as knowledge and how knowledge contrasts with belief or opinion, which is precisely an epistemological inquiry. 
In summary, options 1 and 2 pose questions about what exists or about being at a fundamental level, i.e., metaphysical questions, whereas option 3 focuses on the nature and status of knowledge, an epistemological topic. Therefore, option 3 is the epistemological choice, while the first two are metaphysical.

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