Definition of Epistemological

1. Adjective. Of or relating to epistemology. "Epistemic modal"

Exact synonyms: Epistemic
Derivative terms: Episteme, Epistemology
Partainyms: Epistemology, Epistemology

Definition of Epistemological

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to epistemology or theory of knowledge, as a field of study. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to knowing or cognizing, as a mental activity. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Epistemological

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Epistemological

epistasy
epistatic
epistatic gene
epistatically
epistaxes
epistaxis
epistemai
episteme
epistemes
epistemic
epistemic logic
epistemically
epistemicism
epistemicist
epistemicists
epistemological (current term)
epistemological turn
epistemologically
epistemologies
epistemologist
epistemologists
epistemology
epistemophilia
episterna
episternal
episternal bone
episternum
episternums
epistilbite
epistle

Literary usage of Epistemological

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Problem of Knowledge by Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1915)
"ism, idealistic absolute epistemological monism, and realistic absolute epistemological monism. This terminology has an advantage, moreover, ..."

2. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"The epistemological problem comes more into the foreground as a separate investigation, in consequence of the systematic attack on the possibility of ..."

3. The Psychological Phenomena of Christianity by George Barton Cutten (1908)
"sism; the negative epistemological attitude toward religion has also helped in ... The epistemological problems in religion are of considerable importance, ..."

4. Archives of Philosophy edited by Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge (1907)
"CHAPTER IV JAMES'S DOCTRINE AS A DEFENSE OF RELIGIOUS FAITH AT THE COST OF OBJECTIVE REALITY The epistemological presuppositions for the subjectivism of a ..."

5. Lectures on the Philosophy of Kant and Other Philosophical Lectures & Essays by Henry Sidgwick (1905)
"LECTURE II METAPHYSICAL AND epistemological DOCTRINES IN the last lecture, after explaining Spencer's philosophical Agnosticism and its grounds, ..."

6. Mediaeval Philosophy Illustrated from the System of Thomas Aquinas by Maurice Wulf (1922)
"CHAPTER V VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THE epistemological PROBLEM I. Metaphysical and psychological aspects. II. The data of the epistemological problem. ..."

7. Riddles of the Sphinx: A Study in the Philosophy of Evolution by Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller (1894)
"Among the possible claimants to the honours of the true method we may dismiss two, viz., the epistemological and the psychological. ..."

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