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episteme
  1. (philosophy) Scientific knowledge; a principled system of understanding; sometimes contrasted with empiricism.
  2. (specifically Ancient Greek philosophy) know-how; compare techne.
  3. (Foucaultian) The fundamental body of ideas and collective presuppositions that defines the nature and sets the bounds of what is accepted as true knowledge in a given epistemic epoch.
  4. Examples:
    1. “Herbert aims to agglomerate intellectual movements in various disciplines and show the deep connections that make them part of a single episteme.”
      “One gets the sense that he finds the Western episteme constraining, if not suffocating, in its insistence upon the ideological hold and closure of meaning.”
      “A more severe definition of objectivity that would require a measure of validity outside any tradition of inquiry or paradigm or episteme or habitus is simply uncashable.”
epistemology
  1. (uncountable) The branch of philosophy dealing with the study of knowledge; theory of knowledge, asking such questions as "What is knowledge?", "How is knowledge acquired?", "What do people know?", "How do we know what we know?".
  2. (countable) A particular theory of knowledge.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “If metaphor established a Burkean epistemology, metonymy establishes language as the foundation of that epistemology.”
      “Professor Bradie has published numerous articles on the philosophy of science and epistemology.”
      “Each can be seen as drawing an analogy with one or more strands of Marxist epistemology.”
epistopic
  1. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought): A recurrent topic of epistemological discussion and debate.
epistemologist
  1. A person, especially a philosopher, who studies theory of knowledge.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “But, while Russell was the superior logician, Ayer was arguably the more penetrating and imaginative epistemologist.”
      “This latter characteristic was the target, however, of an attack launched by the incomparable 18th-century epistemologist Immanuel Kant.”
      “Rigorous epistemologist, he is also concerned by education and diffusion of knowledge.”
epistemologists
epistemologies
  1. plural of epistemology
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Such convictions though can never reach the level of absolute clarity and demonstrability that was sought by modernist epistemologies.”
epistopics
  1. plural of epistopic
epistemes
  1. plural of episteme
epistemai
  1. plural of episteme
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