epistemologist
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- noun
- /ˌɛpɪˈstɛmələdʒɪst/
- Specialized
- Ethical theorists and epistemologists who have reflected long on the relation between theory and practice in their subject matter might well come to something like the following general conclusion: "Human beings are a pretty sorry bunch in their personal and cognitive behavior."
Examples
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Georges Canguilhem, the epistemologist and philosopher of biology who happened to be also on Simodon's thesis committee, had developed an organismic theory of life.
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But, you know, the epistemologists are all around me.
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Of course, many epistemologists are not so interested in what produces knowledge.
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I'm a feminist epistemologist who has taught critical thinking and argumentation off and on for years.
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Hence, every society can have its epistemologists and its standard ways of using cognitive terminology.
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Piaget was first and foremost a genetic epistemologist, which is the study of how humans come to know what they know over time (Piaget, 1970).
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"You can be a good empiricist," epistemologist Paul Feyerabend instructs, "only if you are prepared to work with many alternative theories rather than with a single point of view.
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An epistemologist studies how we can differentiate between justified belief and opinion.
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As an epistemologist, her research focuses on the sources and limits of human knowledge.
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Many famous philosophers, such as Descartes and Kant, are considered important figures in epistemology.
Synonyms
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A person who studies ideas about life, knowledge, and values
Surface Forms
Morphology
epistemologist = epistemology (semi-transparent) = epistemolog + ist
This is a regular agent-noun formation from the specialized base word 'epistemology', but the base is uncommon enough that many learners would not infer the meaning immediately.
Etymology
Epistemologist comes from the Greek root episteme, meaning 'knowledge', and the part -logist, meaning 'one who studies', the same idea you see in biology. So an epistemologist is a person who studies how we know things and what counts as knowledge.