ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the ḥāteta written by Ethiopian scholar Zera Yaqob. As his philosophy resists a division into the basic disciplines customary in Western philosophy, it is, thus, rather challenging to identify purely epistemological principles in his philosophy. However, since Zera Yaqob is deeply concerned about truth, we still find profound philosophical insights about knowledge and being and their relationship to one another. We will finish our reconstruction of some of the main ideas of the ḥāteta with some rather critical notes on some of the hidden premises and their seemingly superioristic implications.
