Adjective: epistemological
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more epistemological |
| Superlative | most epistemological |
Sample Sentences
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The epistemological position of Ritschl, in our author's exposition of it, is little more than idealistic rationalism. [1898, E. A. Read, “Review of Vergleich der dogmatischen Systeme von R. A. Lipsius und A. Ritschl”, in The American Journal of Theology, volume 2, number 1, page 190:]
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In the period from Spinoza to the end of the 19th century, the reading of design into nature received such devastating attacks from naturalists to non-naturalists alike that there developed an epistemological neurosis which Von Baer aptly termed “teleophobia.” [1952, D. Maurice Allan, “Towards a Natural Teleology”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 49, number 13, →DOI:]
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My conclusion dovetails with Fasold's conclusion, which is based on a quite different, more epistemological kind of argument. [1991, Walt Wolfram, “The Linguistic Variable: Fact and Fantasy”, in American Speech, volume 66, number 1, page 31:]
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The reality which thus emerges is the outcome of the epistemological process in which the mind conceptually structures a given content. [1969, Sandra B. Rosenthal, “The 'World' of C. I. Lewis”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, volume 29, number 4, page 590:]
Adjectives inflected like epistemological
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English epistemology
3. Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
4. Proto-Italic *-ikos
5. Latin -icuslbor.
6. Old French -iquebor.
7. Middle English -ic
8. Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
9. Proto-Indo-European *-is
10. Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
11. Proto-Italic *-ālis
12. Latin -ālisbor.
13. Old French -albor.
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15. Latin -ālis
16. Old French -elbor.
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18. Latin -ālisbor.
19. Middle English -al
20. Middle English -ical
21. English -ical
22. English epistemological
23. From epistemology + -ical.
Verbs referencing "epistemological"
Dutch Adjectives
epistemologisch, Finnish Adjectives
epistemologinen.