epistemological
Americanadjective
adjective
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concerned with or arising from epistemology
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(of a philosophical problem) requiring an account of how knowledge of the given subject could be obtained
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Origin of epistemological
Explanation
An epistemological argument is a philosophical discussion about the nature of knowledge and how you know what you know. The Greek word for "knowledge" is episteme, and epistemology is the branch of philosophy that considers how you know things — how, for instance, your senses determine what you can know about the world around you. It is an epistemological view that where truth and belief intersect, one finds knowledge. Now that's deep.
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Example Sentences
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The process used to answer it was rigorously epistemological.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
It made him an epistemological rival of Kirk’s.
From Slate • Sep. 16, 2025
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 • Apr. 1, 2024
“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 • Dec. 4, 2023
He was pinched perspiringly in the epistemological dilemma of the skeptic, unable to accept solutions to problems he was unwilling to dismiss as unsolvable.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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