In the sense used by Foucault and his followers: the collective worldview of a particular culture, in a certain place and time. An episteme structures the way people think, and determines what is discussable. Not quite linguistic limitations, not quite social desirability, but something in between.

Objective knowledge of reality as the object of knowledge is absorbed by a direct congnitive experience. Favored approach of the Avasthas that is achieved through the Deep Way.

As distinguished from techne, the Greek word επιστημη or episteme is often translated as knowledge or science.

A consistent pattern of discursive occurrences in a given time period that yields knowledge.

the body of ideas that determine intellectually certain knowledge at any particular time

a set of common assumptions about nature and limits of knowledge