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EPISTEME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does episteme mean?
• EPISTEME (noun)
The noun EPISTEME has 1 sense:
1. the body of ideas that determine the knowledge that is intellectually certain at any particular time
Familiarity information: EPISTEME used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The body of ideas that determine the knowledge that is intellectually certain at any particular time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("episteme" is a kind of...):
cognition; knowledge; noesis (the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning)
Derivation:
epistemic (of or relating to epistemology)
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