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The embodied, preconscious orientation toward what counts as knowledge and how it should be acquired. Epistemological Habitus is the set of dispositions that make certain ways of knowing feel natural and others feel foreign, uncomfortable, or simply wrong. For someone raised in a culture with a strong empirical tradition, knowing through measurement feels like real knowing; knowing through intuition feels like guessing. For someone raised in a tradition of revealed truth, knowing through scripture feels like real knowing; knowing through experiment feels like arrogance. Epistemological Habitus operates beneath argument—it's not that people decide one epistemology is better; it's that their entire being orients toward certain ways of knowing as simply "how one knows." This is why epistemological disagreements are so intractable: they're not disputes about methods but collisions of embodied orientation.
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