How to Use epistemic in a Sentence

epistemic

adjective

• Facebook’s epistemic crisis is perhaps the biggest story in tech and media from the last year.
  — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 10 May 2018
• The moral, social, and epistemic void in which Germans found themselves after defeat was filled, at least for a time, by the irrational.
  — Richard J. Evans, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2021
• Whether the lies are the result of a strategic mind or a careless one, the general effect is the same: epistemic exhaustion, among Trump’s fans and detractors alike.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2017
• Other epistemic trespassers spent their time reinventing the wheel.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2020
• So Western epistemic traditions must be booted out of Africa.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
• For people who have staked their lives on doing whatever the experts tell them to do, the strange unity of confusion has induced an epistemic crisis.
  — Crispin Sartwell, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2022
• The new conspiracism moves us from gap to chasm, for epistemic polarization ultimately dissolves our common sense of the world.
  — N.c., The Economist, 12 Aug. 2019
• Part of resisting epistemic exhaustion is learning to live with with the limited and imperfect.
  — Mark Satta, The Conversation, 18 Nov. 2020
• Of course, those are the very conditions that have enabled an epistemic corrosion that will continue to advance with or without synthetic media.
  — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2022
• How does a government begin to address an epistemic disconnect of this magnitude?
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2021
• Revkin focuses on details in climate science, not on grand epistemic theories.
  — William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 3 May 2017
• Both Singh and Fitouchi highlight that negatively weighted beliefs such as the threat of punishment are most likely to bypass our epistemic vigilance.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 4 July 2022
• On top of that, America is experiencing an epistemic crisis, and with that has come a crisis of authority in journalism.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 9 Dec. 2018
• In epistemic bubbles, other voices are not heard; in echo chambers, other voices are actively undermined.
  — Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 9 Mar. 2022
• The novel’s engine is epistemic as well as emotional, Serpell being one of those novelists who have metabolized the quirks and the canniness of literary theory.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
• But perhaps the gulf between you and these friends arises from differences in your epistemic capacities — the ability to gain reliable information.
  — New York Times, 1 Dec. 2020
• Often seen as an epistemic trespasser, she was used to persevering through skepticism and outright rejection.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 13 May 2021
• Philosopher Miranda Fricker describes the notion of epistemic injustice as an injustice done to someone in their capacity as a knower.
  — Danielle Wenner, STAT, 19 May 2022
• Empathetic curiosity is the desire to learn about another person and epistemic curiosity is the desire to learn more about a particular field or topic with depth and focus.
  — Tracy Brower, Forbes, 20 June 2021
• What remains to enthuse about, from the festival’s first week, is a trio of films that share provocative approaches to the cinematic representation of facts—three radical varieties of epistemic cinema.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2022
• After all, Republicans have taken pains to build an epistemic wall around their core voters, by delegitimizing the mainstream media, academics, or any kind of expert who does not flatter Sean Hannity’s intuitions.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Oct. 2017
• Talking about this badly is an easy path to exacerbating our very social, political, religious, and epistemic difficulties that made Jan. 6 possible in the first place.
  — Bonnie Kristian, The Week, 21 July 2021
• Self-locating uncertainty is a different kind of epistemic uncertainty from that featured in pilot-wave models.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Sep. 2019
• Researchers describe this as epistemic curiosity, a need for understanding.
  — Susan Engel, Time, 23 Feb. 2021
• The GOP’s electorate is tiny and increasingly radical, in many cases existing in a different epistemic universe altogether where global warming is more likely to be caused by Jewish space lasers than the burning of fossil fuels.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 3 June 2022
• However, much evidence shows that reasoning often leads to epistemic distortions and poor decisions.
  — Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2011
• There is a final point that is much trickier: political inclinations and other non-epistemic factors color our social-scientific judgments, for experts as well as for novices.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2011
• Epistemic humility, though, is distinct from epistemic nihilism.
  — Idrees Kahloon, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
• As the agency went on the press offensive, the calls from attorneys and organizations like Amnesty International immediately collapsed into the maelstrom of uncertainty and epistemic chaos that has defined the Trump era.
  — Gaby Del Valle, The New Republic, 15 June 2020
• But such exemption from standards of evidence and falsifiability puts the claim on the same epistemic level as astrology or climate skepticism.
  — Nick Romeo, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2022

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