epistemological

American  

[ih-pis-tuh-muh-loj-i-kuhl] / ɪˌpɪs tə məˈlɒdʒ ɪ kəl /

adjective

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

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epistemological British  

/ ɪˌpɪstɪməˈlɒdʒɪkəl /

adjective

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

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Other Word Forms

• epistemologically adverb

Etymology

Origin of epistemological

epistemolog(y) + -ical

Example Sentences

We now inhabit, Mr. Appiah writes, an “epistemologically fallen world” of competing “stakeholders.”

From The Wall Street Journal

When your congregation zealously overestimates the epistemological functionality of empiricism in the work of logical positivism, you trap the conversation of science and consciousness in your lethally boring Vienna wagon-Circling.

From Salon

“Comedy and its epistemological relation to trauma theory” is the proposed dissertation topic of one of the characters in Anthony Veasna So’s new collection of essays and fiction, “Songs on Endless Repeat.”

From Los Angeles Times

In doing so, the group has introduced a new tool, the "dahliagram," to enable researchers to analyze and visualize a wide array of quantitative and qualitative knowledge from diverse disciplinary sources and epistemological backgrounds.

From Science Daily

But he passes over Popper's deeper individualist epistemological mistake, embedded in his philosophy of science, which provided a foundation for his attack on historicism.

From Salon