An Episteme (n.) is researched through the analysis of discourse.
The Episteme (n.) is the accepted description of how one knows.
Episteme (n.) is the orderly unconscious structures underlying the production of scientific knowledge in a particular time and place.
The Episteme (n.) is the total set of relations that unite, at any given period, practices that give rise to epistemological figures, sciences, formalized systems.
An Episteme (n.) defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge, whether expressed in a theory or silently invested in a practice — and in any given culture at any given moment there is only one.