epistemic
C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
General adjective
Relating to knowledge or to the conditions under which belief counts as knowing.
She stressed the epistemic gap between believing something firmly and actually being justified in it.
Business adjective
Relating to knowledge, its validity, and how it is justified.
The framework distinguishes epistemic uncertainty, arising from limited knowledge, from purely random market noise.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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