How to pronounce“epistemic”in English
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Definitions of “epistemic”
Of or relating to cognition or knowledge, its scope, or how it is acquired.
“Second, note the role of the respondent's epistemic state. It is a factor in determining the correct replies, but only when the propositum is irrelevant.”
Of or relating to how cognition or knowledge is expressed in language.
“Professor [Richard] Boyd provides a powerful argument for the conclusion that in the sciences metaphor is often theory-constitutive, by means of an important modification of the causal theory of reference in terms of ‘epistemic access’; Metaphors provide epistemic access to the world via the articulation of new ideas at a stage when literal language cannot cope, enabling us with increasing accuracy to accommodate language to the world.”