Definitions

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  • noun philosophy Scientific knowledge; a principled system of understanding; sometimes contrasted with empiricism.
  • noun specifically Ancient Greek philosophy know-how; compare techne.
  • noun 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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  • noun the body of ideas that determine the knowledge that is intellectually certain at any particular time

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek ἐπιστήμη (epistēmē, "knowledge").

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Examples

  • How although we think we are original how much are lives and episteme is shaped by those around us and the media.

    Reader reviews of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. 2005

  • There is episteme, which is connected with stasis, as mneme is with meno.

    Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

  • That is, irrespective of what may predominate as an "episteme" at a certain civilizational epoch, the human constitution does not fundamentally change until man transits to superman.

    "Europeanization of the world" is a necessary stage of world culture Tusar N Mohapatra 2007

  • That is, irrespective of what may predominate as an "episteme" at a certain civilizational epoch, the human constitution does not fundamentally change until man transits to superman.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2007

  • The meaning of sumpheron (expedient) I think that you may discover for yourself by the light of the previous examples, - for it is a sister word to episteme, meaning just the motion (pora) of the soul accompanying the world, and things which are done upon this principle are called sumphora or sumpheronta, because they are carried round with the world.

    The CRATYLUS Plato 1975

  • comes from the Greek words "episteme" meaning knowledge and "LOGOS" or discourse and is applied to that part of PHILOSOPHY concerned with issues surrounding the origins and nature of human cognition and knowledge.

    Concise Dictionary of Religion 1993

  • a sister word to episteme, meaning just the motion (pora) of the soul accompanying the world, and things which are done upon this principle are called sumphora or sumpheronta, because they are carried round with the world.

    Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

  • Michel Foucault c. 1975 Introduced concepts such as 'discursive regime', or re-invoked those of older philosophers like 'episteme' and 'geneaology' in order to explain the relationship between meaning, power and social behavior within social orders (see The Order of Things, The

    CHE > Latest news 2010

  • What can be illuminated here is not so much how the worldview was transformed in Ruvu spheres of the Northeast-Coastal Bantu cultural zone — because it in fact appears mostly intact — but rather how its framework was treated discursively at a local level while being deeply rooted in an ancient episteme.

    Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

  • However, because Ruvu culture's underlying religious episteme assured them that when appropriate measures were taken they stood a fair chance of curtailing the negative effects of spirit forces, they sensibly took preventative measures.

    Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

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