noun
- Plural of epistemologist; philosophers or scholars who study the nature, origin, and limits of human knowledge and how we know what we know.
Usage: Academic; formal
Examples
- Epistemologists debate whether knowledge requires justified true belief.
- Many epistemologists examine how we distinguish between opinion and fact.
- The conference brought together leading epistemologists from universities worldwide.
- Epistemologists have long questioned the reliability of human perception.
- Some epistemologists argue that all knowledge is socially constructed.
- Contemporary epistemologists explore the role of artificial intelligence in knowledge acquisition.