# Metadata Source URL:: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemocracy Topics:: #epistemology, #political --- # Epistemocracy - Wikipedia ## Highlights > [!quote]+ Updated on 290822_095012 > > The term epistemocracy has many conflicting uses, generally designating someone of rank having some epistemic property or other. Nassim Nicholas Taleb used it in 2007 to designate a utopian type of society where the leadership possesses epistemic humility. He claims the French writer Michel de Montaigne was a modern epistemocrat. He points out, however, that it is difficult to assert authority on the basis of one's uncertainty; leaders who are assertive, even if they are incorrect, still gather people together