It is said of methodological and rational knowledge, differentiated from opinion or opinion, that it can be circumscribed to a time and place. It has Greek etymology as 949; 961; 953; ( epi "envelope , above" ) 953; 963; 964; 951; 956; 953; ( istemi "stand, stand") , a metaphor for "looking over what we are used to". It was used by the sophist Socrates as early as the fifth century BC. C . , and recovered by the philosopher James Frederick Ferrier in the nineteenth century.
The episteme is not a human creation, is the place in which the man does installed at a point from which knows and acts in accordance with the structural rules of the episteme ( unconscious ). The human sciences are part of the modern episteme which marks the threshold of our modernity. Modern episteme has drawn the profile of the man who does his own history because it is the episteme that makes such a man
