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Knowledge is a familiarity with someone or something, which can include facts, information, descriptions, or skills acquired through experience or education.

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Is questioning the execution of knowledge still epistemology or another branch of philosophy?

I would say that what you are describing is still epistemology, albeit perhaps of an applied or naturalized kind Regarding your second point, formal epistemology takes logical rules and applies them …
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Aside from logical representations, what are other ways philosophers approach representing k...

This knowledge representation hypothesis has often been criticised: Think of the truism that someone possessed only of "book knowledge" of a given subject matter, especially one far from common sense … Sowa, J.F. (2000) Knowledge Representation: Logical, Philosophical and Computational Foundations Brooks/Cole …
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Is there a philosophical term or theory that defines or describes the idea of 'epiphany'?

Not from philosophy, but from education, there is the idea of "threshold concepts" As elaborated, these share some properties of the epiphany (and are described similarity by students "crossing" the …
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