epistemic
Americanadjective
adjective
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of or relating to knowledge or epistemology
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denoting the branch of modal logic that deals with the formalization of certain epistemological concepts, such as knowledge, certainty, and ignorance. See also doxastic
Other Word Forms
- epistemically adverb
Etymology
Origin of epistemic
1920–25; < Greek epistēmikós, equivalent to epistḗm ( ē ) knowledge + -ikos -ic
Example Sentences
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That epistemic humility — the willingness to admit what we don’t know — is increasingly out of step with a public discourse that values performance over inquiry.
From Salon
Often we don't process information for epistemic reasons.
From Salon
Free speech is the vehicle for epistemic humility and the guarantor of democratic efficacy: that we can’t know who’s right unless we can all argue it out, unfettered.
From Salon
The new Johns Hopkins work investigates a different kind of behavior: "epistemic actions," which are performed when someone is trying to learn something.
From Science Daily
What this view does right is to acknowledge that humans are epistemic agents, meaning they actively search for information and construct their own mental models of the world.
From Salon
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