Epistemic: Broadly construed, ‘epistemic’ means the cognitive relationship between human minds and the world, the general sphere of conceptual relationships and the higher order logical rules that are thought to govern that relationship in a given epoch of knowledge. Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by… Read More

Epistemic utility: The value of scientific hypotheses (including laws and theories) insofar as they are, for example, true, consistent with other claims believed to be true and precise. Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John McMurtry, Philosophy and World Problems, Volume I-III, UNESCO in partnership with Encyclopedia… Read More

Epistemology: philosophy of knowledge and cognition. This is a central field of philosophy concerned with the nature, grounds and limits of knowledge: a generally unrecognized realm of value judgment and theory insofar as judgments rest on elective norms of “true” and “false” and “valid” and “invalid”. Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values… Read More