epistemic crisis (English, noun)
expansion: epistemic crisis (plural epistemic crises)
Senses:
glosses: A crisis in which the normal competition between epistemic regimes or components thereof crescendoes to the extent that peoples, nations, or other human groups either lose their sense that they share perceptions of common reality or pretend to lose it for purposes of tactical or strategic feint in a power struggle. In other words a crisis where there is no agreed upon reality.
glosses: Any other crisis of epistemics or epistemology, such as a replication crisis.
Forms:
form: epistemic crises
tags: plural