What is "epistemological"

Usage examples of "epistemological".

Thus, we do indeed want to try to avoid retrotension, but this still leaves us in a far different place from the empiricists, who stare blankly at the rose and wonder how the epistemological gap shall ever be bridged, as if they were staring at an alien creature materialized from a wholly different dimension.

There were those sciences which clove to metaphysical and epistemological realism and those which treated science as a grand, but ultimately meaningless game.

The records show that even though the five senses be in abeyance in them, they are absolutely sensational in their epistemological quality, if I may be pardoned the barbarous expression,—.

While promising a philosophical system as rational, demonstrable and scientific as mathematics, Descartes began with the basic epistemological premise of every Witch Doctor (a premise he shared explicitly with Augustine): “.

He had long philosophical pow-wows with his professors and friends, and these gurgled with such words as teleological and epistemological , and there was much extremely fine-honed stuff about scepticism and the whole of life being a can of worms.

Logical Positivism carried it farther and, in the name of reason, elevated the immemorial psycho-epistemology of shyster-lawyers to the status of a scientific epistemological system—by proclaiming that knowledge consists of linguistic manipulations.