epistemically
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9.6
- adverb
- /ˌɛpɪˈstɛmɪkli/
- Formal
- Denial of these opportunities to learn the inside rules and traditions of sociopolitical institutions makes an individual or group epistemically helpless and prevents the development of the intellectual autonomy that insulates them from manipulation and exploitation.
Examples
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The talk of politics' factual reality admits that the empirical facts, events, and processes of politics can be epistemically conceptualized within the frameworks of politological theorizing.
Academic text (2016) -
It's a regress argument: arguments are ways to get from one epistemically good thing to other epistemically good things.
Blog text (31) -
The difference at this point in history is that the GOP base has become epistemically closed.
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An argument is epistemically religious not because of what it says, but, roughly speaking, because of how it must be justified.
Academic text (1997) -
Realism is epistemically the view that there is at least partial access from language to reality.
Academic text (1995) -
Kripke holds that, epistemically, we might discover that a certain type of animal has existed even though we thought this extremely unlikely.
Academic text (1997) -
Of course, puzzlement may not necessarily lead to religious faith, even for those who accept our perception of reason and freedom as epistemically warranted.
Academic text (2008) -
If simple direct inference is not epistemically acceptable, we are back to fair-sampling constraints.
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Similarly, an epistemically inclined anthropologist may use "I" to signal how his argument differs from the argument of others.
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Philosophers often debate whether certain beliefs can be held epistemically as true or false.
Synonyms
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9.9
In a way that looks at how people know things
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Epistemically comes from the Greek word episteme, which means 'knowledge', and the ending -ically makes it mean 'in a way'. So to do something epistemically is to do it in a way about 'knowledge' or about how we know things.