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epistemologically

epistemologically

1 9.9
In a way that looks at how people know things
  • adverb
  • /ˌɛpɪstəˈmɒlədʒɪkli/
  • Formal
: epistemológicamente
  • Either way, both positions are epistemologically unverifiable and therefore beliefs.
  • epistemologically adequate
  • epistemologically adequate representations
  • epistemologically different

So there's, you could say epistemologically a primacy of the evil consciousness.

Examples

  • Einstein maintained with Newton that space and time were epistemologically necessary for the existence of all things.

    Academic text (2009)

  • In fact, absolute time and space are ontologically and epistemologically necessary for the existence of all things.

    Academic text (2009)

  • Should I be thinking epistemologically when I write a brief?

    Blog text (33)

  • I, I it's seldom that you encounter something really epistemologically new in our field.

  • An inclusivistic perspective is thus, epistemologically speaking, unavoidable.

    Academic text (2006)

  • In this regard, it has been argued that those who lack emotion are epistemologically disadvantaged in making such judgments.

    Academic text (1999)

  • As I turn it, at least, there is nothing epistemologically private or asocial about imaginative life; nothing metaphysical about it.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Extrapolating over such a vast span is neither scientifically justified nor epistemologically acceptable.

    Academic text (1999)

  • Newman integrated the imagination with his theological method. Epistemologically, he used the imagination for reasonable discernment through convergence.

    Academic text (1992)

  • Philosophers often debate how epistemologically we can claim certainty about our knowledge.

Synonyms

epistemically
vsepistemologically
  • Formal
1 9.6

In a way that relates to knowledge and how we know something

is concerned with the theory and study of how we know things

Surface Forms

epistemologically positive

Morphology

epistemologically = epistemological (semi-transparent) = epistemolog + ical + ly

This is a regular -ly adverb formed from the adjective 'epistemological'.

Etymology

The word epistemologically comes from the Greek root episteme meaning 'knowledge', the part -logy meaning 'study', and the ending -ally which makes it 'in this way'. So, epistemologically means 'in the way of studying knowledge', or simply, it describes how we know things.