| 释义 |
epistemics, n. pl. (const. as sing.) Philos.|ɛpɪˈstiːmɪks|
[f. epistemic a.: see -ic.]
The scientific (as opp. to philosophical) theory or study of the processes of knowledge (see quot. 1969).
1969Guardian 22 Nov. 9/1 Edinburgh University has just founded a school of epistemics... It has taken the trouble to explain what epistemics is. Or are. ‘The word ‘epistemics’’, the university journal explains, ‘implies an intention to reformulate some of the key questions about knowledge and to construct formal models of the processes—perceptual, inferential, and linguistic—whereby we may be led to an understanding of the nature of thought.’ 1977C. Longuet-Higgins in Bullock & Stallybrass Fontana Dict. Mod. Thought 209/2 Epistemics..signifies the scientific study of knowledge... A more extended definition of epistemics is ‘the construction of formal models of the processes—perceptual, intellectual, and linguistic—by which knowledge and understanding are achieved and communicated’. 1979A. Flew Dict. Philos. 109/1 Epistemics, a term coined in Edinburgh University in 1969 to label a new school dedicated to the scientific, as opposed to the philosophical, study of knowledge. |