Epistemological psychology
The term episteme is related to the Greek word επιστήμη, which translates literally as "standing near or by that which causes" but is often simplified as "knowledge" or "science". By ignoring ego interests the core impetus or the essence of a deed, real or imagined, is recovered.
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.