epistemological worry

is the often confused concern that influences scientific practice as scientist worry about what they might know and how they might know it.

epistemological worries' (to use Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison's term) about what they could know and how they could know it.1 From their efforts to mold affective states and monitor the parameters of racial ontologies, we can read their confused assessments of what kinds of knowledge they needed, what they needed to know and what they often knew they did not. (in Stoler, Along the Archival Grain 3)

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epistemological worry