单词 | epistemics |
释义 | epistemicsn. Philosophy. With singular agreement. The scientific theory or study of knowledge and understanding. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > [noun] > theory of knowledge, system system1615 theory?1634 philosophy1668 technology1683 scheme1690 stock-in-tradea1806 episteme1842 Wissenschaftslehre1846 epistemics1901 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > empiricism > [noun] > epistemics epistemics1901 episteme1967 1901 Pedagogical Seminary Mar. 136 Besides the incorrigible epistemics, however, there are those emerging from the shadow who are weary of a priori constructions, hunger for a more concrete field, and drift to various things. 1969 Guardian 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.’ 1979 A. 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. 2000 A. Goldman in G. Axtell Knowl., Belief, & Char. i. 16 Epistemics is not restricted to the assessment of psychological processes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1901 |
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