What is the difference between epistemic and epistemology?
epistemic | epistemology |
Of or relating to knowledge or cognition; cognitive.
* 1981 , Martin Warner, “Review of Metaphor and Thought'' by Andrew Ortony”, ''The Modern Language Review , vol. 76, no. 2, p. 428,
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(rare) Of or relating to theory of knowledge (epistemology).
* 2000 , Timm Triplett, “Review of The Philosophy of Roderick M. Chisholm''”, ''The Philosophical Review , vol. 109, no. 3, p. 452,
(uncountable) The branch of philosophy dealing with the study of knowledge; theory of knowledge, asking such questions as "What is knowledge?", "How is knowledge acquired?", "What do people know?", "How do we know what we know?".
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(countable) A particular theory of knowledge.
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Epistemology is a related term of epistemic.
As an adjective epistemic
is of or relating to knowledge or cognition; cognitive.As a noun epistemology is
the branch of philosophy dealing with the study of knowledge; theory of knowledge, asking such questions as "What is knowledge?", "How is knowledge acquired?", "What do people know?", "How do we know what we know?".epistemic
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Adjective
(-)- Metaphors provide epistemic access to the world via the articulation of new ideas at a stage when literal language cannot cope.
- Second, note the role of the respondent's epistemic state. It is a factor in determining the correct replies, but only when the propositum is irrelevant.
- Audi considers whether Chisholm might be able to incorporate into his epistemic system an internalist evidential grounding requirement.
Usage notes
Philosophers usually differentiate the meanings of “epistemic” and “epistemological”. They generally use “epistemic” in the sense “of or relating to knowledge or cognition” and use “epistemological” in the sense “of or relating to epistemology”. [citation needed]Derived terms
* epistemic logic * epistemicallyepistemology
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(wikipedia epistemology)Noun
(epistemologies)- Some thinkers take the view that, beginning with the work of Descartes, epistemology began to replace metaphysics as the most important area of philosophy.
- In his epistemology , Plato maintains that our knowledge of universal concepts is a kind of recollection.
- I believe that 'intuitionism' is usually, and rightly, taken to mean Brouwer's epistemology of mathematics, which is unrelated to the origin or content of topos theory.