How to Use epistemic in a Sentence

epistemic

adjective
  • Some of us write about epistemic relativism, the view that truth can vary depending on the context.
    — Kathleen Higgins, Scientific American, 5 Dec. 2016
  • Facebook’s epistemic crisis is perhaps the biggest story in tech and media from the last year.
    — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 10 May 2018
  • The moral, social, and epistemic void in which Germans found themselves after defeat was filled, at least for a time, by the irrational.
    — Richard J. Evans, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Whether the lies are the result of a strategic mind or a careless one, the general effect is the same: epistemic exhaustion, among Trump’s fans and detractors alike.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2017
  • There can be no epistemic authority, no one to trust, other than the autocrat and his mouthpieces.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 2 Nov. 2018
  • Other epistemic trespassers spent their time reinventing the wheel.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2020
  • So Western epistemic traditions must be booted out of Africa.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
  • As Nguyen notes in this essay, two things are needed for cult thinking to bloom — epistemic bubbles combined with echo chambers — and social media has it in spades.
    — Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 9 Mar. 2022
  • For people who have staked their lives on doing whatever the experts tell them to do, the strange unity of confusion has induced an epistemic crisis.
    — Crispin Sartwell, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2022
  • These human sciences present a patchwork of conflicting claims to epistemic supremacy.
    — Jason Blakely, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • The new conspiracism moves us from gap to chasm, for epistemic polarization ultimately dissolves our common sense of the world.
    — N.c., The Economist, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Manipulated media is far from harmless, but its harms have not been epistemic.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Part of resisting epistemic exhaustion is learning to live with with the limited and imperfect.
    — Mark Satta, The Conversation, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Of course, those are the very conditions that have enabled an epistemic corrosion that will continue to advance with or without synthetic media.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2022
  • How does a government begin to address an epistemic disconnect of this magnitude?
    — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2021
  • Revkin focuses on details in climate science, not on grand epistemic theories.
    — William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 3 May 2017
  • Both Singh and Fitouchi highlight that negatively weighted beliefs such as the threat of punishment are most likely to bypass our epistemic vigilance.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 4 July 2022
  • On top of that, America is experiencing an epistemic crisis, and with that has come a crisis of authority in journalism.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 9 Dec. 2018
  • Will either ever be as essential or influential as Twitter among epistemic elites?
    — Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 13 July 2023
  • The epistemic crisis Trump has accelerated is now morphing into a full-fledged crisis of democracy.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 2 Nov. 2018
  • In epistemic bubbles, other voices are not heard; in echo chambers, other voices are actively undermined.
    — Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 9 Mar. 2022
  • In epistemic bubbles, other voices are not heard; in echo chambers, other voices are actively undermined.
    — Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 28 Mar. 2019
  • The novel’s engine is epistemic as well as emotional, Serpell being one of those novelists who have metabolized the quirks and the canniness of literary theory.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The slow death of local media has contributed to the epistemic closure in conservative circles, especially in rural areas.
    — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 9 May 2018
  • But perhaps the gulf between you and these friends arises from differences in your epistemic capacities — the ability to gain reliable information.
    — New York Times, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Often seen as an epistemic trespasser, she was used to persevering through skepticism and outright rejection.
    — Megan Molteni, Wired, 13 May 2021
  • Philosopher Miranda Fricker describes the notion of epistemic injustice as an injustice done to someone in their capacity as a knower.
    — Danielle Wenner, STAT, 19 May 2022
  • Empathetic curiosity is the desire to learn about another person and epistemic curiosity is the desire to learn more about a particular field or topic with depth and focus.
    — Tracy Brower, Forbes, 20 June 2021
  • What remains to enthuse about, from the festival’s first week, is a trio of films that share provocative approaches to the cinematic representation of facts—three radical varieties of epistemic cinema.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2022
  • After all, Republicans have taken pains to build an epistemic wall around their core voters, by delegitimizing the mainstream media, academics, or any kind of expert who does not flatter Sean Hannity’s intuitions.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Oct. 2017

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