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epistemics

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epistemics [ˌɛpɪˈstiːmɪks -ˈstɛm-]
n
(Philosophy) (functioning as singular) Chiefly Brit the interdisciplinary study of knowledge and human information-processing, using the formal techniques of logic, linguistics, philosophy, and psychology Compare artificial intelligence


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Jon Oberlander, Professor of Epistemics (whatever that is) at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, has prototyped a style checker you can use to adjust three aspects of your language?
Briefly, epistemics is concerned with 'the construction of formal models of the processes--perceptual, intellectual, and linguistic--by which knowledge and understanding are achieved and communicated' (Longuet-Higgins, 1988, p.
Individualism and collectivism in the universal, the balancing mechanism, and the incidence of harmony and conflict, then describes the epistemics of the human sciences, including dialectical historicism, phenomenology and methods, aesthetics, overcoming skepticism and radical relativism and reunifying the human sciences under philosophy.
 
 
 
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