"epistemic regime" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: epistemic regimes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} epistemic regime (plural epistemic regimes)
  1. Any pattern or system (including any ideology, philosophy, religion, science, or tradition, as well as coexistent combinations thereof) by which people know or believe (or believe that they know) the things that they know or believe (including any ontologic or cosmologic facts, theories, hypotheses, catechistic items of faith, or other items of faith). Wikipedia link: sociology of knowledge Hyponyms: ideology, philosophy, religion, science, tradition Related terms: epistemic crisis, epistemology, metaknowledge
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