EPISTEME Definition & Meaning

episteme

[ ep-uh-stee-mee ]

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noun

Philosophy. (in the works of 20th-century philosopher Foucault) the set of ideas and assumptions, often unconscious, that underlie and constrain what is accepted as knowledge in a particular period:
Technology or social revolution creates a new episteme that then shapes the nature of scientific and social enterprise.
any organized or scientific system of knowledge based on a set of explicit principles; paradigm:
The project explores the formation and operation of the episteme of patent law as currently practiced by lawyers.

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Origin of episteme¹

First recorded in 1840–45; from Greek ��辱��ḗmŧ “k�ԴǷɱ��岵��”

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This is part of a much larger closed episteme and alternate reality that includes right-wing churches, the internet and social media, and neighborhoods, communities and friendship networks, which in total function as political silos.

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These results are much more than the result of partisanship or polarization or how Republican and other right-wing voters exist in an echo chamber and closed episteme of disinformation and misinformation.

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The right-wing news media is a type of echo chamber and closed episteme.

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They have successfully captured their public and created for them an entire alternate reality — a closed episteme — consisting of not just the party but a right-wing hate media echo chamber.

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Trump World is a closed episteme, whose logic is self-sustaining and self-justifying.

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