epistemics

English

Etymology

See epistemic, and compare physic : physics, mechanic : mechanics, and similar pairs.

Noun

epistemics (uncountable)

1. (plural in form and plural in construction) The epistemic factors or attributes (of something).
   • 2022, Helen Verran, Towards Decolonising. A Translating World Philosophy‎^[1]:

     This involves articulating epistemics as collective actions in the here and now through which answers to politicoepistemic questions are enacted in the workings of concepts expressing a variety of epistemicities.

2. (plural in form and plural or singular in construction) The collective examination thereof; the body of knowledge and beliefs derived therefrom; synonym of epistemology.

   Near-synonym: epistemic regime