Episteme
"Episteme" is a philosophical term derived from the Ancient Greek word ἐπιστήμη "epistēmē", which can refer to knowledge, science or understanding, and which comes from the verb , meaning "to know, to understand, or to be acquainted with".
Episteme
The French philosopher Michel Foucault used the term "épistémè" in a specialized sense in his work "The Order of Things" to mean the historical, but non-temporal, "a priori" which grounds knowledge and its discourses and thus represents the condition of their possibility within a particular epoch.