epistemological
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- adjective
- /ˌɛpɪstəˈmɒlədʒɪkəl/
- Formal
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epistemológico
- Philosophers often debate epistemological theories to understand the nature of knowledge.
- epistemological assumptions
- epistemological framework
- epistemological perspective
But this view brings with it many epistemological and metaphysical mysteries.
- But this view brings with it many epistemological and metaphysical mysteries.
- He's deeply concerned with metaphysical and moral questions, but also epistemological questions.
- As we go on in this class, I'll be fussing around with this, with this epistemological problem.
- So my question is, what happens to your epistemological claim that all humans have a birthright?
- But on a basic epistemological level, I have no trouble saying, yeah, we're going to call him Dan Smell.
- But we're not just talking about faith in the sense of, you know, a, an epistemological comportment.
Examples
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Ultimately, the seemingly practical question "what works" is both a methodological and an epistemological question.
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Nevertheless, it left me feeling that social studies, as an epistemological knowledge base, were missing from the discourse.
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But on a basic epistemological level, I have no trouble saying, yeah, we're going to call him Dan Smell.
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Anger has what we could call epistemological effects.
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Or is it more in an epistemological sense, we just don't know anything about it.
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As we go on in this class, I'll be fussing around with this, with this epistemological problem.
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The concluding section will propose an epistemological change to new ways of thinking.
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There he defines ethical individualism as both an epistemological and an ethical point of view.
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Beyond their religious significance, ancestors serve critical discursive and epistemological functions within Melanesian culture.
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Taking sexual realities seriously will require an epistemological shift and a resultant new paradigm of Chinese sexual expression.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
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About knowledge and how people know things
Surface Forms
Morphology
epistemological = epistemology (transparent) = epistemology + ical
If a learner knows 'epistemology' they can readily infer 'epistemological' as 'relating to epistemology' following standard adjective formation.
Etymology
Epistemological comes from the Greek root episteme, meaning 'knowledge', plus -logical, which is the same root as logical and means 'study of' or 'reasoning'. So, something epistemological is about how we know things and whether that knowledge is reliable.