ἐπιστήμη

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[edit] Ancient Greek

[edit] Etymology

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"Ἑπιστἠμἠ" comes from the composition of "επ-ἰσταμαι", formed from "επἰ", which means "upon"; plus the middle passive "ἰσταμαι", which means "to be set", or "to stand". "Ἑπιστἠμἠ" then is the sort of knowledge that we can build upon, that which we set or stand other knowledge upon. [Quoted from Catriona Hanley, Being and God in Aristotle and Heidegger: The Role of Method in Thinking the Infinite (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001), 4.]

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[edit] Noun

ἐπιστήμη (genitive ἐπιστήμης) f, (epistēmē)

  1. science
  2. knowledge

[edit] Descendants

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