Epistemic 

A stand-in name for a generally very cool guy, liked by all.

Oh I really liked him, he's very Epistemic like.

Epistemic by Bing Chilling The Third February 4, 2023

Epistemic Status 

Culture of origin: lesswrong-adjacent blogging communities

The epistemic status is a short disclaimer at the top of a post that explains how confident the author is in the contents of the post, how much reputation the author is willing to stake on it, what sorts of tests the thesis has passed.

It should give a reader a sense of how seriously they should take the post.

It had "Epistemic Status: Wild off-the-cuff speculation" so I didn't bother to read it. It seemed entertaining, just didn't have time.

He said "Epistemic Status: Would bet at 30:1 odds in favour of the thesis and I probably one of the top 100 theorists in the intersection of the relevant fields" but it still seemed completely insane to me. Heads better roll if/when it turns out to be wrong. Like, I mean it, he should lose all of his social capital. People should stop reading his blog and his eigenkarma should be reset (If he's somehow right though I will be very impressed)

"Epistemic Status: Fiction"

Epistemic Status by 7154b22954f68d626c891921a6a5e0 January 12, 2019

Epistemic violence

Often used interchangeably with epistemological violence, but sometimes with a narrower focus on the harm done through silencing, misrepresentation, or exclusion of marginalized knowers. It includes: denying someone credibility because of their identity (epistemic injustice), forcing a group to speak in a dominant language (linguistic violence), or erasing their contributions from history. Epistemic violence maintains power hierarchies by controlling who is heard and what counts as knowledge. It is a central concept in decolonial and feminist epistemology.

Epistemic violence Example: “The peer reviewers rejected the indigenous scholar’s paper because it used oral testimony as evidence. That epistemic violence: imposing Western evidentiary standards to silence other ways of knowing.”

Epistemic violence by Abzugal June 5, 2026

epistemic capture

When the entire knowledge production process in a particular field becomes captured by one industry and it control what questions are asked, what methods are used, and what counts as "valid" evidence.

Science and medicine have failed in response to the autism epidemic because of epistemic capture — the pharmaceutical industry controls what questions are asked, what methods are used, and what counts as "valid" evidence.

epistemic capture by Otis Strudelmaker October 17, 2026

street epistemology 

A non-threatening, often public, discourse; designed to identify, explore and possibly modify deeply held personal beliefs through the use of the Socratic method.

Through my exposure to street epistemology, it became evident to me that faith--as a foundation for sustaining religious belief--is unreliable. How could divergently opposing religious systems expect to use faith as a method of conveying revealed Truth, yet come to mutually incompatible conclusions? Answer: they can not.

street epistemology by YAWA September 2, 2017

epistemophilic 

related to epistemophilia which means "love for knowledge" (usually excessive love).

He is an epistemophilic individual ( or has an epistemophilic personality ).

epistemophilic by blalboz January 28, 2012

Yahoo Answers Swine Epidemic 

Basically everyone in the Health Category who is in a complete panic about getting the Swine Flu.

coolchick35: A mexican man coughed on me today, do i have swine flu?!?

Answerer #1: omggzzz gets to the hispitals nowss.

Answerer #2: Thanks for the 2 points!

Answerer #3: B!tch! my mothers mexican!

Answerer #4: *sigh*Just calm down everyone! Your making it worse by panicking! this must be this yahoo answers swine epidemic again..

(answerer #4 gets 15 thumbs down)

Yahoo Answers Swine Epidemic by pigLoverr April 29, 2009