Adjective

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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,

Metaphors provide epistemic access to the world via the articulation of new ideas at a stage when literal language cannot cope.

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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.

(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,

Audi considers whether Chisholm might be able to incorporate into his epistemic system an internalist evidential grounding requirement.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(label) The same in all respects.

* (1671-1743)

They who are not disposed to receive them may let them alone or reject them; it is equal to me.

Exactly identical, having the same value.

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(label) Fair, impartial.

* 1644 , (John Milton), (Aeropagitica) :

it could not but much redound to the lustre of your milde and equall Government, when as private persons are hereby animated to thinke ye better pleas'd with publick advice, then other statists have been delighted heretofore with publicke flattery.

* Bible, (w) xviii. 29

Are not my ways equal ?

* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

Thee, O Jove, no equal judge I deem.

(label) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.

* 1881 , (Jane Austen), , p. 311

her comprehension was certainly more equal to the covert meaning, the superior intelligence, of those five letters so arranged.

* (1609-1674)

The Scots trusted not their own numbers as equal to fight with the English.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

It is not permitted to me to make my commendations equal to your merit.

* (Ralph Waldo Emerson) (1803-1882)

whose voice an equal messenger / Conveyed thy meaning mild.

(label) Not variable; equable; uniform; even.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

an equal temper

(label) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.