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epistemic crisis

epistemic crisis noun: 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.

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.

Forms of epistemic crisis

pluralepistemic crises

Questions about epistemic crisis

What does epistemic crisis mean?
Epistemic crisis means 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.
What part of speech is epistemic crisis?
Epistemic crisis is a noun.
What is the plural of epistemic crisis?
The plural of epistemic crisis is epistemic crises.

Words near epistemic crisis in the dictionary

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

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