epistemologicallyadv.
/ᵻˌpɪstəməˈlɒdʒᵻkli/, U.S. /ᵻˌpɪstəməˈlɑdʒək(ə)li/ Chiefly Philosophy.
With reference to knowledge or understanding; in an epistemological manner.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > epistemology > [adverb]
epistemologically1854
epistemically1924
1854 J. F. Ferrier Inst. Metaphysic 213 Viewed ontologically, the inchoation and incessant flux ascribed to matter may be an enigma to the student; but viewed epistemologically, it need not puzzle him at all.
1882 Mind 7 535 Epistemologically irrelevant.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 9 June 3/2 Epistemologically..Von Hartmann is a transcendental realist who ably defends his views.
1919 Mind Jan. 4 There is nothing which I believe to be epistemologically more unsound than this identification of the knower's knowledge or experience with the reality of the object he knows.
1963 J. Lyons Struct. Semantics iii. 43 A psychologically and epistemologically satisfying theory of our understanding of other languages.
2006 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 39 404 Both projects were epistemologically optimistic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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