epistemic crisis

English

Noun

epistemic crisis (plural epistemic crises)

  1. A profound disruption in the shared frameworks for knowledge production, validation, and dissemination, where established epistemic regimes, methodologies, and concensus mechanisms fail, leading to widespread uncertainty regarding truth or reality.
  2. Any other crisis of epistemics or epistemology, such as a replication crisis.

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