epistemological

[ ih-pis-tuh-muh-loj-i-kuh l ]

/ ɪˌpɪs tə məˈlɒdʒ ɪ kəl /

pertaining to epistemology, a branch of philosophy that investigates the origin, nature, methods, and limits of human knowledge.

Origin of epistemological

e·pis·te·mo·log·i·cal·ly, adverb

The author who dug up that photo in Cooperstown appreciates the epistemological puzzle.

The Myth of Jackie Mitchell, the Girl Who Struck Out Ruth and Gehrig |Adam Doster |May 18, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
For years, the Republican Party has benefited from a base sealed in an epistemological bubble.

The Democrats' Birther Book Boon |Michelle Goldberg |April 21, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
In the cases of physical epistemology and epistemological physics we have already seen doctrines working to this end.

The Will to Doubt |Alfred H. Lloyd
Dewey is here dealing with the 'epistemological' realists, among whom he includes such writers as Bertrand Russell.

John Dewey's logical theory |Delton Thomas Howard

The epistemological problem of the relation of the mind to reality becomes, accordingly, the raison d'être of his method.

John Dewey's logical theory |Delton Thomas Howard
In its epistemological use, the term "knowledge" has a blanket value which is absolutely unknown in common life.

Essays in Experimental Logic |John Dewey
Dewey assures us again that his method alone will solve the epistemological problem.

John Dewey's logical theory |Delton Thomas Howard

epistemological

/ (ɪˌpɪstɪməˈlɒdʒɪkəl) /

concerned with or arising from epistemology

(of a philosophical problem) requiring an account of how knowledge of the given subject could be obtained

epistemologically, adverb