How to Use epistemological in a Sentence

epistemological

adjective

• Not in a nihilistic way, but rather from a blank-slate epistemological point of view.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Apr. 2022
• And what does the ‘epistemological status of space’ even mean?
  — Teddy McDarrah, Forbes, 8 June 2021
• Montás, like Swift, is concerned with the epistemological and ethical res publica that makes up a civilization and how to keep it alive and transmit it.
  — M. D. Aeschliman, National Review, 20 Feb. 2022
• Vision depends on the spatial distance between the human subject and the object of perception, but scent and sound seem to overcome such an epistemological gap.
  — The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
• Instead of being forced to affirm a stable falsehood, we have been flooded by a deluge of chaotic mental garbage for the past four years that has left us drowning in an epistemological quagmire.
  — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 5 Oct. 2020
• Likewise, my prompt to offer both an ontological and an epistemological answer to the question When does bread become toast?
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 7 Dec. 2022
• At stake was not a fact of perception but the epistemological status of negation—the philosophical meaning and value of assertions about nothing.
  — The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
• For writers and everyone else who believe that public speech should be meaningful, Trump’s abuses of language are a form of epistemological warfare.
  — Hari Kunzru, The New York Review of Books, 4 June 2020
• Despite all these advancements, the epistemological knowledge of electricity’s properties was still mostly a mystery—but that was all about to change.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2023
• The authors of the letter are not troubled by the mismatch between Stepanova’s radical epistemological skepticism and her middle-of-the-road moralizing.
  — Yuri Slezkine, The New York Review of Books, 18 Nov. 2021
• These phenomena are in some ways the epistemological counterpoint to UAPs.
  — Hari Kunzru, Harper's Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
• Yet The Passenger, which was released in October, is frustratingly inert, ambling from one sit-down to the next, a string of static, epistemological discussions in bars and restaurants and private-eye offices.
  — Paul Thompson, Chron, 6 Dec. 2022
• Prosecutors will soon run up against the epistemological challenges of explaining and convicting a man whose behavior defies and undermines the structures and logic of civic life.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
• The result was a dispersion of authority and a diffusion of truth that created an epistemological crisis much more serious than our own.
  — Gordon S. Wood, WSJ, 28 May 2021
• An empiricist who was as persuasive about the temptations of radical epistemological skepticism as anyone, but was still able to resist them.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 7 May 2011
• Despite its prominence in the media, the study of disinformation is still in the process of answering definitional questions and hasn’t begun to reckon with some basic epistemological issues.
  — Joseph Bernstein, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
• The authors are admirably cautious, leading us through a brief exploration of the epistemological limits of contemporary neuroscience.
  — Daniel J. Levitin, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2021
• In debates over issues like airborne transmission and reopening schools, researchers sometimes clashed over their merging epistemological lanes.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 27 June 2021
• As became obvious with the anti-vaccine movement, simply shouting down dissident voices, without trying to find some sort of epistemological common ground, is futile.
  — Douglas Girardot, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
• Similar feelings have doubtless been captured in recent photographs, as Americans lament the potential loss of their republic within an epistemological shift away from truth and evidence.
  — Washington Post, 24 June 2021
• Haven’t those who’ve worked to obfuscate the interests and incentives involved in shaping political outcomes contributed to our epistemological crisis?
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 19 Nov. 2020
• For me, Rembrandt’s self-portrait is a case of maximum aesthetic force and maximum embodied awareness exerted in the cause of maximum epistemological uncertainty.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022
• But where Gego’s ostensibly fragile aesthetic is tethered at every point to sturdy underlying principles, Sze’s work fans out into epistemological mayhem.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023
• To the contrary, shocking revelations last century turned Cantor’s question into a deep epistemological conundrum.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 July 2021
• For all cultural anthropology's epistemological muddle, its political priors are crisp and dinstict, and strangely insulated from the critique and deconstruction so valued by the discipline in all matters.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 5 Feb. 2013
• Majok, however, isn’t trying to blow our epistemological paradigms.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2022
• Informational chaos, not narrative clarity, is the internet’s guiding epistemological mode.
  — Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 18 Apr. 2023

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