Meaning of epistemic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of or relating to cognition or knowledge, its scope, or how it is acquired.
   not-comparable
2. Of or relating to how cognition or knowledge is expressed in language.
   broadly, not-comparable
3. Of or relating to epistemology (“the branch of philosophy dealing with the study of knowledge”); epistemologic or epistemological.
   not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“Second, note⟳ the role of the respondent's epistemic state. It is a factor in determining the correct⟳ replies, but only when the propositum is irrelevant.”

“This chapter describes the contours of the epistemic crisis in media and politics that threatens the integrity of democratic processes, erodes trust⟳ in public institutions, and exacerbates social divisions.”

“Professor [Richard] Boyd provides a powerful argument for the conclusion that in the sciences metaphor is often theory-constitutive, by means of an important modification of the causal theory of reference in terms of ‘epistemic access’; Metaphors provide⟳ epistemic access to the world via the articulation of new ideas at a stage⟳ when literal language cannot cope, enabling us with increasing accuracy to accommodate language to the world.”

“[Robert] Audi considers whether [Roderick Milton] Chisholm might be able to incorporate into his epistemic system an internalist evidential grounding requirement addressing this question⟳.”

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