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epistemic | null |

As an adjective epistemic

is of or relating to knowledge or cognition; cognitive.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

epistemic

English

Adjective

(-)
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-web
  • , year = 2008 , author = Paul Vincent Spade , title = Medieval Theories of Obligationes , site = Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy , url = http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/obligationes/ , accessdate = 2012-07-15 }}
    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.

    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 * epistemically

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----