|epə|stēmik, -tem- adjective
Etymology: Greek epistēmikos of knowledge, capable of knowledge, from epistēmē + -ikos -ic
: of, having the character of, or relating to episteme, knowledge, or knowing as a type of experience : purely intellectual or cognitive ; also : subjective
the epistemic conditions in our present state of knowledge
the epistemic as contrasted with the phenomenological sense
• ep·i·ste·mi·cal·ly -mə̇k(ə)lē adverb