单词 | epistemological |
释义 | epistemological (once / 61240 pages) adj An epistemological argument is a philosophical discussion about the nature of knowledge and how you know what you know. The Greek word for "knowledge" is episteme, and epistemology is the branch of philosophy that considers how you know things — how, for instance, your senses determine what you can know about the world around you. It is an epistemological view that where truth and belief intersect, one finds knowledge. Now that's deep. WORD FAMILYepistemological: epistemologically+/epistemologist: epistemologists/epistemology: epistemological, epistemologies, epistemologist USAGE EXAMPLESThere’s no way to know; such is the epistemological conundrum of Clintonism. Wall Street Journal(Sep 13, 2016) If Rove and other so-called mainstream Republicans helped make this tsunami of epistemological doubt possible, they still didn’t see it coming. Salon(Aug 27, 2016) He was pinched perspiringly in the epistemological dilemma of the skeptic, unable to accept solutions to problems he was unwilling to dismiss as unsolvable. Joseph Heller, Catch-22(1961) adj of or relating to epistemology Syn epistemic |
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