Usually means: Systematic framework of accepted knowledge.
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  1. episteme: Merriam-Webster
  2. episteme: Vocabulary.com
  3. Episteme, episteme: Wordnik
  4. episteme: Wiktionary
  5. episteme: Dictionary.com
  6. Episteme (disambiguation), Episteme (journal), Episteme (moth), Episteme: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. episteme: Rhymezone
  8. episteme: FreeDictionary.org
  9. episteme: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. episteme: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. episteme: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See epistemes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (episteme)

noun:  (philosophy) Scientific knowledge; a principled system of understanding; sometimes contrasted with empiricism.
noun:  (specifically Ancient Greek philosophy) know-how; compare techne.
noun:  (specifically Foucaultian philosophy) The fundamental body of ideas and collective presuppositions that defines the nature and sets the bounds of what is accepted as true knowledge in a given epistemic epoch.

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