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epistemics

epistemics noun: the epistemic factors or attributes (of something).

Noun

epistemics (uncountable)

  1. (plural) The epistemic factors or attributes (of something).
    • This involves articulating epistemics as collective actions in the here and now through which answers to politicoepistemic questions are enacted in the workings of concepts expressing a variety of epistemicities.2022, Helen Verran, Towards Decolonising. A Translating World Philosophy
  2. (plural) The collective examination thereof; the body of knowledge and beliefs derived therefrom; synonym of epistemology.
    • Near-synonym: epistemic regime

Synonyms of epistemics

Origin of epistemics

See epistemic, and compare physic : physics, mechanic : mechanics, and similar pairs.

Questions about epistemics

What does epistemics mean?
Epistemics means the epistemic factors or attributes (of something).
What part of speech is epistemics?
Epistemics is a noun.

Words near epistemics in the dictionary

  1. epistemicism
  2. epistemicist
  3. epistemicists
  4. epistemicities
  5. epistemicity
  6. epistemics
  7. epistemocracy
  8. epistemolog
  9. epistemologic
  10. epistemological
  11. epistemological dualism

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