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Episteme

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epistêmênoun	Alternative spelling of episteme. [(philosophy) Scientific knowledge; a principled system of understanding; sometimes contrasted with empiricism.]
episteménoun	Alternative spelling of episteme. [(philosophy) Scientific knowledge; a principled system of understanding; sometimes contrasted with empiricism.]
epistemicsnoun	(plural in form and plural or singular in construction) The collective examination thereof; the body of knowledge and beliefs derived therefrom; synonym of epistemology.
epistemologynoun	(uncountable) The branch of philosophy dealing with the study of knowledge; the 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?", "How do we know it is true?", and so on.
empiricismnoun	(philosophy) A doctrine which holds that the only or, at least, the most reliable source of human knowledge is experience, especially perception by means of the physical senses. (Often contrasted with rationalism.)
empiriocriticismnoun	(philosophy) A philosophy based on knowledge and experience without any metaphysics
epistemologistnoun	A person, especially a philosopher, who studies theory of knowledge.
ontoepistemologynoun	(philosophy) A form of agential realism that is at once an epistemology (theory of knowing), an ontology (theory of being), and an ethics.
metaepistemologynoun	(philosophy) The study of the nature, methods, goals and underlying assumptions of epistemology
epistemicismnoun	(philosophy) A philosophical position asserting that there are facts about the boundaries of a vague predicate (such as "is thin" or "is bald") which cannot be discovered.
organonnoun	A set of principles that are used in science or philosophy.
epistemic regimenoun	Any pattern or system (including any ideology, philosophy, religion, science, or tradition, as well as coexistent combinations thereof) by which people know or believe (or believe that they know) the things that they know or believe (including any ontologic or cosmologic facts, theories, hypotheses, catechistic items of faith, or other items of faith).
epistemic logicnoun	Epistemic modal logic, a subfield of modal logic that is concerned with reasoning about knowledge.
epidemiologynoun	(sciences) The branch of science dealing with the spread and control of diseases, viruses, concepts etc. throughout populations or systems.
epiphenomenalismnoun	(philosophy, psychology, uncountable) The doctrine that mental states and processes are simply incidental effects of physiological events in the brain or nervous system and cannot themselves cause any effects in the material world.
meta-epistemologynoun	Alternative spelling of metaepistemology. [(philosophy) The study of the nature, methods, goals and underlying assumptions of epistemology]
philosophynoun	(uncountable) An academic discipline that seeks truth through reasoning rather than empiricism, often attempting to provide explanations relating to general concepts such as existence and rationality.
apriorismnoun	(philosophy) The idea that some knowledge of the physical world can be derived logically from general principles.
metempiricismnoun	The science that is concerned with metempirics.
empirismnoun	Alternative form of empiricism. [(philosophy) A doctrine which holds that the only or, at least, the most reliable source of human knowledge is experience, especially perception by means of the physical senses. (Often contrasted with rationalism.)]