episteme

  1. Noun.  (philosophy) Scientific knowledge; a principled system of understanding; sometimes contrasted with (term, empiricism) .
  2. Noun.  (context, specifically Ancient Greek philosophy) know-how; compare (term, techne) .
  3. Noun.  (context, specifically Foucaultian philosophy) The fundamental body of ideas and collective presuppositions that defines the nature and sets the bounds of what is accepted as true knowledge in a given epistemic epoch.

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