epistemologistn.
/ᵻˌpɪstəˈmɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /əˌpɪstəˈmɑlədʒəst/, /ɛˌpɪstəˈmɑlədʒəst/, /iˌpɪstəˈmɑlədʒəst/ Chiefly Philosophy.
A person who studies knowledge or understanding; a student of epistemology.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > epistemology > [noun] > one who studies
epistemologist1889
1889 Mind 14 604 He may be regarded as ‘the epistemologist of the speculative theism of the nineteenth century’.
a1897 W. Wallace Lect. Nat. Theol. (1898) 36 The epistemologist..examines the history of our ordinary physical knowledge.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 55/2 It is only epistemologists, and notably Kant, who so describe individual experience.
1925 J. E. Turner Theory Direct Realism 34 This systematic connection is ignored by Stout, as also by epistemologists in general.
1964 E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Translating iii. 33 A problem with which epistemologists since Descartes have continued to wrestle.
2001 Isis 92 588/1 Simonton finds much of value in the ideas of a social psychologist and evolutionary epistemologist, the late Donald Campbell.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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