Definition of epistemological in English:
epistemological
adjective ɪˌpɪstɪməˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)lɪˌpɪstəməˈlɑdʒəkəl
Philosophy Relating to the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope, and the distinction between justified belief and opinion.
what epistemological foundation is there for such an artificial discrimination?
Example sentencesExamples
- His famous essay on perspective was one of the first and most important attempts to show the epistemological links between art, science, and philosophy in the Renaissance.
- We see that epistemological realism is by no means forced on us by evident features of ordinary justification.
- Doubts about the authenticity of visual appearances, which mark seventeenth-century ethics, also prompted a general epistemological interest in what the eye perceived.
- Scepticism has been the dominant epistemological problem in the modern era.
- They defend an epistemological relativism and maintain that there are as many ways in which phenomena can be "constructed" as there are theories, paradigms or conceptual schemes.
Derivatives
adverb -məˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)li
Philosophy A person who, in a dream, ostensibly sees a man pointing a revolver at him is having an epistemologically intentional experience, although there is no ontological object.
Example sentencesExamples
- These preoccupations reflect epistemologically grounded beliefs about what constitutes acceptable knowledge.
- Certain beliefs are epistemologically basic because they are intrinsically credible or self-evidencing.
- He proposed that linguistic knowledge was epistemologically justified by its formal simplicity.
- Colors are important epistemologically as natural signs or indicators for the identification and re-identification of physical objects.
Definition of epistemological in US English:
epistemological
adjectiveɪˌpɪstəməˈlɑdʒəkəliˌpistəməˈläjəkəl
Philosophy Relating to the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope, and the distinction between justified belief and opinion.
what epistemological foundation is there for such an artificial discrimination?
Example sentencesExamples
- Doubts about the authenticity of visual appearances, which mark seventeenth-century ethics, also prompted a general epistemological interest in what the eye perceived.
- Scepticism has been the dominant epistemological problem in the modern era.
- His famous essay on perspective was one of the first and most important attempts to show the epistemological links between art, science, and philosophy in the Renaissance.
- They defend an epistemological relativism and maintain that there are as many ways in which phenomena can be "constructed" as there are theories, paradigms or conceptual schemes.
- We see that epistemological realism is by no means forced on us by evident features of ordinary justification.