epistemic

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Recent Examples of epistemic Will either ever be as essential or influential as Twitter among epistemic elites? Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 13 July 2023 These human sciences present a patchwork of conflicting claims to epistemic supremacy. Jason Blakely, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023 The interrogations of Laurence delve deep into her childhood, her family, her life in Paris, her academic ambitions, her relationship with the father of her child (an older and married white man), and her own epistemic relationship to the killing (including in relation to her Senegalese heritage). Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2022 The more obvious pattern uniting the likes of Covid denialist Alex Berenson, anti-vaccine advocate and Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and election-denying Gateway Pundit publisher Jim Hoft is their epistemic closure. Rob Pegoraro, The New Republic, 7 July 2023 See All Example Sentences for epistemic
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Adjective
  • Get Your Eyes Checked Risk assessment is one of the most critical leadership skills, yet vision problems can negatively impact spatial awareness and cognitive judgment.
    Dr Chibuzor Uwadi, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Reading fosters cognitive stimulation, emotional connection, and even stress reduction, while breathwork and meditation help regulate stress responses and enhance mental clarity.
    Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Angela's sister and sons say, throughout September, the frightening violations continued — not physical assaults, but psychological terror.
    Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2025
  • That’s not to mention the sheer psychological toll that slipping through the timestream or reliving events can have on a character’s psyche.
    Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Williamson said earlier this week that his hamstring is completely healed, but his mental state remains a work in progress.
    oregonlive, oregonlive, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Sign up That Torrance pushed Vial and Eduardo to such mental anguish does not surprise immigrant-justice advocates.
    María Inés Taracena, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2023
Adjective
  • The average airline passenger likely isn’t very conscious of an airline’s design, although many could probably pick out Spirit Airlines’ bright yellow planes, or the animal tails of Frontier, or the globe of United, or American’s eagle.
    Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Your subconscious mind processes thousands of data points your conscious mind doesn't register.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Those investigations were not available as internal affairs does not keep case files before 2017.
    Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2025
  • But as the internal bickering drags on, all weary voters are seeing is a party with no shortage of talk about fighting Trump, but without a steady notion of how to actually do it.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Nurturing Intellectual Curiosity Selective colleges consistently seek students who demonstrate intellectual vitality—a genuine enthusiasm for learning that extends beyond grade-seeking behavior.
    Dr. Aviva Legatt, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Dugin rails against the European Enlightenment, the intellectual root of modern rationalism and liberalism, and defines himself in the lineage of Counter-Enlightenment thinkers, such as Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2025

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“Epistemic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epistemic. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.

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