(n.) The theory or science of the method or grounds of knowledge.
Example Sentences:
(1) This continuing influence of Nazi medicine raises profound questions for the epistemology and morality of medicine.
(2) And Popperian epistemology is not widely known, let alone understood well enough to be applied.
(3) The epistemological status of health science, natural science, and clinical knowledge is explored.
(4) Spence advocates the gathering of brute data while denying or downplaying the epistemological value of theorizing and of interpretive understandings.
(5) The main objective is an evaluation of the underlying epistemological robustness of the field and the cogency of its claims to possess knowledge.
(6) I assert that this state of biological psychiatry is due to its violation of an epistemological criterion of rationality, i.e., the relevance criterion; that is, contemporary biological psychiatry is irrational as it adopts a conception irrelevant to the psychobiological domain.
(7) In the final section on the practice of interpretation, the question is raised as to how the introduction of the method of reconstruction affects the debate about the epistemological status of psychoanalysis as a science.
(8) suggest the importance of paying greater attention to epistemological and theoretical principles when making methodological choices.
(9) Grunbaum has emphasized this epistemological weakness in the etiological position.
(10) It is proposed that the confusion can be diminished by understanding the relationship between the two meanings, which are here distinguished as epistemology (meaning 1) and epistemology (meaning 2) respectively.
(11) The choice of this point in time of course involves important consequences, on the one hand, sociological and institutional, epistemological and conceptual on the other.
(12) Psychology, belonging to the general class of social sciences, is subject to two kinds of epistemological obstacles: a) those stemming from "common sense", born and nourished in the naïve, day-to-day experience, and being used as a general canon for usual as well as entirely new situations; they reach the status of a pre-critical "knowing", based solely on beliefs, and advocating to provide the grounds for our opinion on singular and general subjects; and b) those stemming from the "speculative discourse", understood as a system of notions encircling themselves and pretending to have an analogical reference to real objects, when analogy only actualizes objects that are absent...
(13) In countries where biomedicine developed from earlier medical knowledge, medical pluralism provides unusual cultural parameters and perspectives on biomedical epistemologies.
(14) The psychotherapeutic implications of Husserl's method of inquiry are examined within the epistemological framework of Kuhn, Piaget, and Popper, which provides a model for both psychopathology and change in psychotherapy.
(15) Non-compliance is not only an epistemological error but a biological impossibility.
(16) As research disciplines differ from each other in terms of their epistemological and theoretical assumptions, they differ in the kinds of data they produce.
(17) Epistemological comparison reveals congruence between the reality-defusing though rules of new science, Batesonian evolution, and ecosystemic thinking with families and family therapy.
(18) The transformation will require a change in the epistemology of medicine and an educational process that encourages reflection and growth of self-knowledge.
(19) The docs I like are irremediably hybrid – a mixture of authorial personality, cod epistemology, appropriated or created history and whatever seems current and interesting.
(20) By establishing a broad understanding of the problem of knowledge, this new view of epistemology is developed within the idiom of each psychiatric approach.
Ontology
Definition:
(n.) That department of the science of metaphysics which investigates and explains the nature and essential properties and relations of all beings, as such, or the principles and causes of being.
Example Sentences:
(1) Interpretation of PS places it at the border between the clinical psychiatric fields and the ontological problems of humanity and leads to the understanding not only of the morbid psychic phenomenon in general and of the suicide in particular, but also to the major reasons of the human being who is trapped critical circumstances.
(2) Ontological studies of thymic tissue demonstrated that the epitope recognized by this MAb was expressed before Day 14 of gestation, although the restricted subcapsular and medullar expression of 8.1.1 was not apparent until sometime after birth.
(3) This essay eschews reductionist, dualist, and identity-theory attempts to resolve this problem, and offers an ontology--"monistic dual-aspect interactionism"--for the biopsychosocial model.
(4) The sequential topographic development of nerve preceding NSE-taste bud cells in precise morphological locations, suggests that the ingress of precursor NSE-taste bud cells and their subsequent differentiation are contingent upon initial neural derived ontologic signals.
(5) This ontologic sequence was not affected by T cell depletion or antigen presentation on adult macrophages.
(6) Rather, such peritoneal invaginations and endometriosis may be ontologically related to a separate codevelopmental factor.
(7) Based on a phenomenological analysis of psychotic interpretation of the world concretism is supposed to represent an important mechanism of schizophrenic thinking: Schizophrenic concretism is the result of an ontological regression of cognitive functioning onto the archaic level of actional representation.
(8) Stopping here, though, is actually the action of a fool – because this conclusion naturally opens up further counterarguments to sandwich ontology that sandwich reactionaries invariably make in bad faith.
(9) It suggests the need for greater attention to subjective self-evaluated self-reported components of health status, specified here as "ontological" health.
(10) Philosophical-ontological questions about man's nature are answered implicitly in clinical practice.
(11) A dynamic, an ontological and a relational illness conception are depicted.
(12) Others have engaged the Hot Dog-Sandwich debate in the past, but they have not gone far enough in exploring the scope of sandwich ontology.
(13) In her essay, Mill criticizes Iglesias's Aristotelian analysis as being too static and abstract to use in an ontological assessment of human structure and development from fertilization to birth.
(14) An EA rosette technique is used to study ontological development and organ distribution of Fc(IgG) receptor-bearing lymphoid cells in normal CS White Leghorn chickens, and in OS chickens with spontaneous autoimmune thyroiditis.
(15) Three experiments assessed the possibility, suggested by Quine (1960, 1969) among others, that the ontology underlying natural language is induced in the course of language learning, rather than constraining learning from the beginning.
(16) The possibility of ontological reduction hinges on whether chromosomes have other important constituents than molecules.
(17) The concept is seen to arise as a consequence of the development of the modern ontological view of disease, the shift in the role ascribed to the nervous system and theoretical developments involving the explanation of psychoses through a descriptive language of psychopathology and bodily states.
(18) Five categories of questions provide a framework for the analysis: ontological, anthropological, ontical, epistemological, and pedagogical.
(19) Data discussed herein supports the contention that synaptic connections serve a central role in triggering the ontological cascade.
(20) But if we accept that a neat meal package of either hinged or wrapping breads or the classic two-slice model are the ontological bases for a sandwich, suddenly we must introduce new food to that classification – arepas, banh mi, a disruptive new egg roll out of Shanghai the size of a football or an infant.