Meaning of episteme | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative spelling of episteme.
   alt-of, alternative
2. Scientific knowledge; a principled system of understanding; sometimes contrasted with empiricism.
3. Know-how; compare techne.
   Ancient-Greek, specifically
4. 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.

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Examples

“1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, pages 65 and 71 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN An 'episteme' is the “underground” grid or network which allows thought to organize itself. Each historical period has its own⟳ episteme. It limits the totality of experience⟳, knowledge and truth, and governs each science in one period. Classical representation no longer needs a subject like⟳ royalty. It can only be made visible by its invisibility — by appearing in the mirror of representation. The true subject is never to be found in the table — or painting — as a historical subject of life, labour and language. The classical episteme did not isolate a specific domain proper to man. Axiom: In the classical episteme the subject is bound to escape⟳ its own⟳ representation.”

“Truth — objective truth — was the function that permitted the discourse of this epistêmê to operate⟳.”

“Its epistemé was focused on the view⟳ that in every entity there are hidden forces which generate⟳ the very being, control⟳ the events, and give⟳ meaning to the universe as a unity […]”

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