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epistemicism

noun

Etymology

From epistemic + -ism.

  1. derived from *steh₂-✻ — “to stand (up)”
  2. derived from ἐπιστήμη — “knowledge; science”
  3. suffixed as epistemicism — “epistemic + ism”

Definitions

  1. A philosophical position asserting that there are facts about the boundaries of a vague…

    A philosophical position asserting that there are facts about the boundaries of a vague predicate (such as "is thin" or "is bald") which cannot be discovered.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA