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epistemic crises

epistemic crises is the plural of epistemic crisis.

Meaning of epistemic crisis

Noun

epistemic crisis (plural epistemic crises)

  1. A profound disruption in the shared frameworks for knowledge production, validation, and dissemination, where established epistemic regimes, methodologies, and concensus mechanisms fail, leading to widespread uncertainty regarding truth or reality.
  2. Any other crisis of epistemics or epistemology, such as a replication crisis.

Questions about epistemic crises

What is epistemic crises the plural of?
Epistemic crises is the plural of epistemic crisis.

Words near epistemic crises in the dictionary

  1. episteme
  2. epistemes
  3. epistemic
  4. epistemic circularities
  5. epistemic circularity
  6. epistemic crises
  7. epistemic crisis
  8. epistemic logic
  9. epistemic marker
  10. epistemic markers
  11. epistemic rationality

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