How to Use epistemology in a Sentence

epistemology

noun
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  • Of course, people may also be weak-willed about starting to read about metaphysics, epistemology and ethics.
    — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the information gods, play at epistemology.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Aristotelian logic and epistemology meet their match in the Indian Nyāya school, and his ethical teachings have often been compared to those of the Confucians.
    — Peter Adamson, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
  • Twitter shapes an epistemology for users under its thrall.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2022
  • For all her meditations on epistemology, Sophie reveals little about her day-to-day life.
    — Becca Rothfeld, The New Republic, 16 Oct. 2020
  • And in this tribal epistemology, meaning surged and collapsed in waves of outrage and comedy and irrelevance.
    — Stephen Marche, Esquire, 7 Nov. 2016
  • At what point did the Circle put a hiring freeze on anyone conversant with epistemology? Lampooning the simple-mindedness of utopian web clichés was arguably part of Mr. Eggers’s point, but much of that point is often muddled in the book.
    — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2017
  • The most acclaimed is regarding epistemology found in his 1979 masterpiece Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature.
    — Theodore McDarrah, Forbes, 1 July 2022
  • Private lessons include deep dives into ancient philosophy, art and architecture, and the epistemology of the Greek language.
    — Sarah Souli, Travel + Leisure, 23 May 2021
  • The Puritan minister Jonathan Edwards grappled with metaphysics and epistemology in his writings and sermons.
    — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2021
  • While McConaghy presents intelligent perspectives on the wisdom of rewilding, the book goes into deeper questions of epistemology.
    — Margaret Wappler, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2021
  • For example, our ocularcentric epistemology—whereby visuals become tied to the cultural reality of events—can be closely linked to the rise of TV over radio as our de facto mass media channel.
    — Wired, 11 Aug. 2022
  • This point is obvious for certain aptitudes, as the field of feminist epistemology in philosophy has emphasized.
    — WSJ, 22 Nov. 2018
  • Philosophers call the study of knowledge epistemology, and this approach to design is entirely epistemological.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 20 July 2017
  • And because documentary filmmaking has the time and the physicality of reporting built in, the aesthetics of documentary filmmaking are at the very heart of audiovisual epistemology, at the core of journalism, at the center of the era in politics.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2016
  • The Romanian director, whose wry fictional films are centered on language and epistemology, turns the camera on his own extended discussions with a longtime acquaintance, a low-level bureaucrat with idiosyncratic ideas about the rules of soccer.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Yet if authenticity and consistency are among Spayd’s virtues, her vices include obtuse logic, shoddy epistemology, and the sort of common-sense conventionalism that a public editor ought to be challenging rather than championing.
    — Will Oremus, Slate Magazine, 14 Apr. 2017
  • This broader epistemology would justify as reasonable many religious insights rejected by its primitive ancestor.
    — WSJ, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Statistical epistemology makes people think and analyze.
    — Yasin Kakande, BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2022
  • Temporalities, ontologies, and epistemologies are discussed.
    — Nate Berg, Curbed, 7 Nov. 2018

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