epistemological

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English epistemology Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English epistemological From epistemology + -ical.

1. Of or pertaining to epistemology or theory of knowledge, as a field of study.

   “The epistemological position of Ritschl, in our author's exposition of it, is little more than idealistic rationalism.”

   “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.””

2. Synonym of epistemic (“of or relating to cognition or knowledge, its scope, or how it is acquired”).

   “The reality which thus emerges is the outcome of the epistemological process in which the mind conceptually structures a given content.”