epistemological
[ih-pis-tuh-muh-loj-i-kuh l]
- pertaining to epistemology, a branch of philosophy that investigates the origin, nature, methods, and limits of human knowledge.
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Origin of epistemological
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Examples from the Web for epistemological
Contemporary Examples
The author who dug up that photo in Cooperstown appreciates the epistemological puzzle.
For years, the Republican Party has benefited from a base sealed in an epistemological bubble.
Historical Examples
The epistemological made into a subject of fiction-how do we know what we know?
The Civilization of IlliteracyMihai Nadin
This is the undoubted fact at the bottom of epistemological realism.
Essays in Experimental LogicJohn Dewey
They have in consequence developed wonderfully elaborate schemes of sundry kinds to maintain "epistemological monism" intact.
Creative IntelligenceJohn Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen
The conception of these operations as the private functions of an organism is the forerunner85 of the epistemological predicament.
Creative IntelligenceJohn Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen
It will be remembered that the first of these problems was the epistemological.
epistemological
- concerned with or arising from epistemology
- (of a philosophical problem) requiring an account of how knowledge of the given subject could be obtained
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