episteme 16
It is said of methodological and rational knowledge, differentiated from opinion or opinion, that it can be circumscribed to a time and place. It has Greek etymology as 949; 961; 953; ( epi "envelope , above" ) 953; 963; 964; 951; 956; 953; ( istemi "stand, stand") , a metaphor for "looking over what we are used to". It was used by the sophist Socrates as early as the fifth century BC. C . , and recovered by the philosopher James Frederick Ferrier in the nineteenth century.