Adjective

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Final; last in a series.

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(of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.

Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.

the ultimate pleasure

the ultimate disappointment

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Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.

Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.

That will happen at some time; eventual.

Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.

* Coleridge

those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we cannot rationally contradict

Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.

an ultimate constituent of matter

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or pertaining to epistemology or theory of knowledge, as a field of study.

* 1898 , E. A. Read, "Review of Vergleich der dogmatischen Systeme von R. A. Lipsius und A. Ritschl''," ''The American Journal of Theology , vol. 2, no. 1, p. 190,

The epistemological position of Ritschl, in our author's exposition of it, is little more than idealistic rationalism.

* 1991 , Walt Wolfram, "The Linguistic Variable: Fact and Fantasy," American Speech , vol. 66, no. 1, p. 31,

My conclusion dovetails with Fasold's conclusion, which is based on a quite different, more epistemological kind of argument.

Of or pertaining to knowing or cognizing, as a mental activity.

* 1969 , Sandra B. Rosenthal, "The 'World' of C. I. Lewis," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , vol. 29, no. 4, p. 590,

The reality which thus emerges is the outcome of the epistemological process in which the mind conceptually structures a given content.