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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

epistemics en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (in form and plural in construction, plural, uncountable) 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. (in form and plural or singular in construction, plural, uncountable) The collective examination thereof; the body of knowledge and beliefs derived therefrom; synonym of epistemology.
    • Near-synonym: epistemic regime

Synonyms

epistemic regime