epistemic

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Thus, we suggested that ways-of-seeing were epistemic, that is, largely a product of shifting social and historical values.

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  • But there can be no doubt about the difference between a belief that is overtly motivated by emotional bias (and other non-epistemic factors) and a belief that is comparatively free of such bias. —  homunculus
  • Your blithe acceptance that belief can be something other than epistemic-something other than an effort to reliably map reality in our thoughts-makes it impossible to differentiate belief from mere hope. —  homunculus
  • They generally use "epistemic" in the sense "of or relating to knowledge or cognition" and use "epistemological" in the sense "of or relating to epistemology". —  Griffin And Hoxie Mega Feed
  • If we ignore vertical knowledge (general rules, principles) or throw it carelessly out of the window, we lose experience, we abandon vital means of orientation in the world - epistemic help that is not the result of the achievement of any single mind. —  RedStateEclectic
  • Rorty, who died at 75 on June 8, epitomized a hearty American version of the Teutonic epistemic gloom that has raged like wildfire through the American university from the 1970s to, well, at least to the day before yesterday. —  www.Perublogs.com Todos los Blogs del Perú
 

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  1. From Greek epistēmē, knowledge; see epistemology.
 

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