Associations to the word «Episteme»

Wiktionary

EPISTEME, noun. (philosophy) Scientific knowledge; a principled system of understanding; sometimes contrasted with empiricism.
EPISTEME, noun. (specifically Ancient Greek philosophy) know-how; compare techne.
EPISTEME, noun. (specifically Foucaultian philosophy) The fundamental body of ideas and collective presuppositions that defines the nature and sets the bounds of what is accepted as true knowledge in a given epistemic epoch.
EPISTÊMÊ, noun. Alternative spelling of episteme
EPISTEMÉ, noun. Alternative spelling of episteme

Dictionary definition

EPISTEME, noun. The body of ideas that determine the knowledge that is intellectually certain at any particular time.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King