Angus Deaton

I argue that experiments have no special ability to produce more credible knowledge than other methods, and that actual experiments are frequently subject to practical problems that undermine any claims to statistical or epistemic superiority.

British Economist

Daniel Dennett

In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the horizon Newton had to settle for in his day, but no doubt there will still be good questions whose answers elude us.

American Philosopher

Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.

Use 'epistemic' to discuss how knowledge is tested or supported, often in scientific or philosophical debates.

Validation Context

Best suited for formal, academic settings where knowledge and intellect are being analyzed.

Intellectual Discussions

Expresses degrees of certainty about information, suggesting that something can be known or estimated.

Certainty and Doubt

Links directly to 'epistemology', which is the examination of knowledge's nature, origin, and scope.

Theory of Knowledge

'Epistemic' is typically used in specialized, scholarly contexts like philosophy or education.

Scholarly Expression

Use when discussing concepts about what it means to know something, not just having information.

Understanding Knowing

 that what you want and what's true are different things. Which brings me to the third thing that I think we need to do if we want to accept that we live in a common reality. That third thing have a little humility. By humility here, I mean epistemic humility,

How to see past your own...

 become sure but what I think is less often noticed is that we are not just divided over our moral values we're actually also divided over our epistemic values over our very principles of