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epistemological

[ih-pis-tuh-muh-loj-i-kuhl]

adjective

pertaining to epistemology, a branch of philosophy that investigates the origin, nature, methods, and limits of human knowledge.

Origin:
epistemolog(y) + -ical

Related forms

e·pis·te·mo·log·i·cal·ly, adverb

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Complete and perfect understanding: an epistemological heaven in which all is revealed.

In short, students would develop their own epistemological awareness vis-a-vis the humanities.

For a senior politician to grapple with serious epistemological questions, and to do so publicly, is as commendable as it is rare.

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Complete and perfect understanding: an epistemological heaven in which all is revealed.

In short, students would develop their own epistemological awareness vis-a-vis the humanities.

For a senior politician to grapple with serious epistemological questions, and to do so publicly, is as commendable as it is rare.

Effects of epistemological beliefs and learning text structure on conceptual change.

We need to ask about data's ontological and epistemological nature.

Here the plot is an epistemological inquiry, as is the movie's meticulous, obsessive form.

There are honest epistemological and methodological disagreements between the four schools.

Scientism is evidently a direct result of that weird, epistemological patricide.

We're going through a rapidly accelerating epistemological sea change.

Well, first there's what you might gently call an epistemological problem.

Second, it is the only known epistemological system in which every claim can be independently re-derived.

The basic epistemological conundrum of cinema has been there from the start.

With regard to the free market acting irrationally sometimes, you've fallen into an epistemological trap.

You'll come away with a favorable impression of the epistemological climate in this subculture.

She is currently working on a book on the ethical and epistemological issues raised by our relationship to captive chimpanzees.

There is also an epistemological problem that bothers me, even though my colleagues by and large are willing to ignore.

In the meantime, let's demand that the climate-science warriors fix their epistemological and interest-group problems.

It is bluntly simple-minded even as it makes a great show of its epistemological sophistication.

Gianakos's drawings suggest an exasperated attempt to expunge troublesome habits of epistemological thinking.

Its methodological error lies in the fact that it over-estimates the epistemological value of our logical operations….

Instead he has made himself the master of the whole epistemological mess.

Useful as these categories are in an epistemological sense, practically speaking, they have one failing.

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epistemological (ɪˌpɪstɪməˈlɒdʒɪk^əl)

—*adj*
1.	concerned with or arising from epistemology
2.	(of a philosophical problem) requiring an account of how knowledge of the given subject could be obtained

epistemologically

—*adv*

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