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
Kuhn's paradigm shifts are a consequence of a series of conscious decisions made by scientists to pursue a neglected set of questions. Foucault's "episteme" is something like the 'epistemological unconscious' of an era; the resultant configuration of knowledge of a particular "episteme" is, to Foucault, based on a set of primordial, fundamental assumptions that are so basic to the "episteme" that they're experientially "invisible" to the constituents (such as people, organizations, or systems) operating within the "episteme."