Example Sentences

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A junior epistemologist, I was trafficking in Bishop Berkeley before I could drive.

From Washington Post • Apr. 12, 2022

Better descriptions of how scientists actually work include what epistemologist Peter Lipton called in 1991 “inference to the best explanation”, or the search for the “loveliest” explanation7.

From Nature • Jan. 22, 2018

Lane is a story-maker, a sort of historical epistemologist, and also an artist of taste and invention.

From The New Yorker • May 9, 2016

Yesterday, as detractors elsewhere bloviated over Al Jazeera’s mythical terrorist ties, The Stream hosted famous epistemologist Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan.

From Time • Jan. 5, 2013

It answers the big problems which are as familiar to the scientist and the theologian as to the metaphysician and epistemologist, and which are both intelligible and interesting to common sense.

From Pragmatism by Murray, D. L.