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Noun:
- specifically Ancient Greek philosophy techne|lang=en.
- specifically Foucaultian philosophy The fundamental body of ideas and collective presuppositions that defines the nature and sets the bounds of what is accepted as true knowledge in a given epistemic epoch.
- Scientific]] knowledge; a principled system of understanding; sometimes contrasted with {{term|empiricism|lang=en.
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