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Universal taxonomy of Carolus Linnaeus b mathesis universalis of Leibniz are the ground of Michel Foucault’s conception ‘episteme’
$EVWUDFW ‘Episteme’ designates the accepted mode of acquiring and arranging knowledge in a given period. An episteme unites the various discourses and guarantees their coherence within an underlying structure of implicit assumptions about the status of knowledge. The term has gained currency from the work of the French philosopher Michel Foucault, especially his Les Mots et les choses (The Order of Things, 1966; Bulgarian edition: GZmdZ b badmkl\h, 1990).
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Vasil Penchev, PhD, Assoc. Prof. – Department “Philosophy of History�, Institute for Philosophical Research of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
E-mail: vasildinev@gmail.com http://four.fsphost.com/vasil7penchev
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