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Episteme   /ˈɛpɪstˌim/   Listen
Episteme

noun
1.
The body of ideas that determine the knowledge that is intellectually certain at any particular time.





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"Episteme" Quotes from Famous Books



... meal, (5) the sure hope of the nearness of Christ's glorious kingdom. In these appears the unity of Christendom, that is, of the Church which possesses the Holy Spirit.[195] On the basis of this unity Christian knowledge was free and manifold. It was distinguished as [Greek: sophia, sunesis, episteme, gnosis (ton dikaiomaton)], from the [Greek: logos theou tes pisteos], the [Greek: klesis tes epangelias] and the [Greek: entolai tes didaches] (Barn. 16. 9, similarly Hermas). Perception and knowledge ...
— History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) • Adolph Harnack
... three ideas expressed by the Greek philosophers under the terms [Greek: phroneei], [Greek: sophia], and [Greek: episteme]; and part of the idea ...
— The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3) • John Ruskin


Words linked to "Episteme" :   epistemic, noesis, cognition, knowledge


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