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epistemic regime

epistemic regime noun: any pattern or system (including any ideology, philosophy, religion, science, or tradition, as well as coexistent combinations thereof) by which people know or believe (or believe that they know) the things that they know or believe (including any ontologic or cosmologic facts, theories, hypotheses, catechistic items of faith, or other items of faith).

Noun

epistemic regime (plural epistemic regimes)

  1. Any pattern or system (including any ideology, philosophy, religion, science, or tradition, as well as coexistent combinations thereof) by which people know or believe (or believe that they know) the things that they know or believe (including any ontologic or cosmologic facts, theories, hypotheses, catechistic items of faith, or other items of faith).
    • Holonyms: reality, world, World, universe, Universe
    • Meronyms: science, research; ideology, philosophy; tradition, received wisdom; ethics, morality; theology, theism, theosophy, religion; credo, creed; agnosticism, atheism, antitheism, apatheism, igtheism < belief system

Examples of epistemic regime in a sentence

  • It answers this question by unpacking the epistemic regimes that underpin the move to resilience.2014, Claudia Aradau, “The promise of security: resilience, surprise and epistemic politics”, in Resilience, volume 2, number 2, →DOI...
  • People who agreed with Galileo but wanted to get ahead politically and economically would likely pretend to go along with the contemporary epistemic regime.2021, Maeve Maddox, “Epistemology vs Agnotology”, in Daily Writing Tips website, retrieved 19 Apr 2021:

Synonyms of epistemic regime

Forms of epistemic regime

pluralepistemic regimes

Questions about epistemic regime

What does epistemic regime mean?
Epistemic regime means any pattern or system (including any ideology, philosophy, religion, science, or tradition, as well as coexistent combinations thereof) by which people know or believe (or believe that they know) the things that they know or believe (including any ontologic or cosmologic facts, theories, hypotheses, catechistic items of faith, or other items of faith).
How do you use epistemic regime in a sentence?
It answers this question by unpacking the epistemic regimes that underpin the move to resilience.
What part of speech is epistemic regime?
Epistemic regime is a noun.
What is the plural of epistemic regime?
The plural of epistemic regime is epistemic regimes.

Words near epistemic regime in the dictionary

  1. epistemic crisis
  2. epistemic logic
  3. epistemic marker
  4. epistemic markers
  5. epistemic rationality
  6. epistemic regime
  7. epistemic regimes
  8. epistemically
  9. epistemicide
  10. epistemicides
  11. epistemicism

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