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Episteme (πιστήμη)
Episteme (ἐπιστήμη), also epistêmê, is the Ancient Greek term for reliable knowledge, contrasted by Plato and Aristotle with doxa (belief) and techne (craft), and reused by Foucault for an era's historical a priori.
Epistemic cultures
Epistemic cultures are the distinct arrangements and mechanisms by which an expert community creates and warrants knowledge, a concept introduced in 1999 by the sociologist Karin Knorr Cetina.
Epistemic democracy
Epistemic democracy is the view that democratic decisions are justified partly because they tend to be correct, drawing on Condorcet's jury theorem and thinkers like Estlund and Landemore.
Epistemic dependence
Epistemic dependence is the reliance of a knower on other people or sources for knowledge that cannot be independently verified, first analyzed by John Hardwig in 1985.
Epistemic injustice
Epistemic injustice is the wrong done to someone specifically in their capacity as a knower, introduced by philosopher Miranda Fricker in her 2007 book Epistemic Injustice.
Epistemic modal logic
Epistemic modal logic, also called epistemic logic, is the branch of modal logic that formalizes knowledge and belief with operators like "agent a knows that". Jaakko Hintikka's 1962 book founded the field.
Epistemic network analysis
Epistemic network analysis (ENA) is a quantitative discourse analysis method modeling connections among coded elements as weighted networks, introduced by David Williamson Shaffer in 2009.
Epistemic values
Epistemic values are properties of a scientific hypothesis or theory, such as accuracy, consistency, scope, simplicity, and fruitfulness, that guide the assessment and choice of theories.
Epistemological break
The epistemological break (French rupture épistémologique) is a philosophy of science concept introduced by Gaston Bachelard in the 1930s, holding that science must break with everyday common sense rather than refine it.
Epistemology
Epistemology, the theory of knowledge, is the branch of philosophy studying knowledge and justified belief: its definition (justified true belief and the Gettier problem), justification theories (foundationalism, coherentism, reliabilism), skepticism, sources of knowledge, and social and AI epistemology.
Epistle
An epistle is a letter, or in literary usage a work written in letter form, most notably the epistolary novel, which peaked in the 18th century.
Epistle of Barnabas (Βαρνάβας)
The Epistle of Barnabas, or Letter of Barnabas, is an anonymous Greek Christian treatise of 21 chapters, probably written in the early second century and attributed by early readers to Barnabas.
Epistle of James
The Epistle of James, also called the Letter of James, is a short New Testament letter of five chapters, traditionally attributed to James, the brother of Jesus.
Epistle of Jude
The Epistle of Jude, also known as the Letter of Jude or Book of Jude, is a short New Testament letter of 25 verses attributed to Jude, brother of James and of Jesus.
Epistle to Diognetus
The Epistle to Diognetus, also called the Epistle of Mathetes, is an anonymous Greek apologetic letter of the second century explaining Christianity to a pagan inquirer.
Epistle to Philemon
The Epistle to Philemon, also known as Paul's letter to Philemon, is the shortest letter of Paul, written from prison to ask Philemon to receive Onesimus.
Epistle to the Colossians
The Epistle to the Colossians, also known as the Letter of Paul to the Colossians, is a New Testament letter presented as written by Paul to the church at Colossae.
Epistle to the Ephesians
The Epistle to the Ephesians, also called the Book of Ephesians, is a New Testament letter of six chapters traditionally attributed to the apostle Paul.
Epistle to the Galatians
The Epistle to the Galatians, or Letter to the Galatians, is a letter of Paul the Apostle to Christian congregations in the Roman province of Galatia, defending justification by faith.
Epistle to the Hebrews
The Epistle to the Hebrews, also known as the Book of Hebrews, is an anonymous first-century New Testament work, dated about 60 to 95 CE, presenting Jesus as high priest.
Epistle to the Laodiceans
The Epistle to the Laodiceans is a short apocryphal letter written in the apostle Paul's name, surviving only in Latin manuscripts and built almost entirely from phrases in Philippians.
Epistle to the Philippians (Πρὸς Φιλιππησίους)
The Epistle to the Philippians (Πρὸς Φιλιππησίους) is a New Testament letter attributed to Paul, written from prison to the church at Philippi in Macedonia around AD 60–62.
Epistle to the Romans
The Epistle to the Romans is the longest of Paul's undisputed letters, written from Corinth in the late 50s AD and centered on justification through faith.
Epistle to Titus
The Epistle to Titus, also called the Letter of Paul to Titus, is a short Pastoral Epistle in the New Testament, written by Paul to Titus.
Epistles
The Epistles (Epistulae) are two books of verse letters in dactylic hexameter by the Roman poet Horace, his last major works, published between 19 and 8 BCE.
Epistocracy
Epistocracy is a proposed political system that distributes political power by law according to citizens' knowledge or competence, a term coined by David Estlund in 2003.
Epistolary novel
An epistolary novel, a form of epistolary fiction, is a novel told through letters or documents, which flourished in the eighteenth century with Richardson's Pamela and Rousseau's The New Héloïse.
Epistolary prose
Epistolary prose is prose fiction written in the form of letters or correspondence, a genre that flowered in the eighteenth century with works like Richardson's Pamela and Clarissa.
Epistrategos
The epistrategos (ἐπιστράτηγος, epistrategus) was a senior Ptolemaic Egyptian official, best known as governor of the Thebaid in Upper Egypt from the late 3rd century BC.
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, or Moral Letters to Lucilius, is a collection of 124 Latin Stoic letters by Seneca the Younger, written in his final years.