Regimes of truth is a term coined by philosopher

Michel Foucault Paul-Michel Foucault (, ; ; 15 October 192625 June 1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationship between power and knowledge, and how ...

, referring to a discourse that holds certain things to be "

truth Truth is the property of being in accord with fact or reality.Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionarytruth 2005 In everyday language, truth is typically ascribed to things that aim to represent reality or otherwise correspond to it, such as beliefs ...

s". Foucault sought to explore how knowledge and truth were produced by power structures of society.

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Michel Foucault Epistemological theories {{Philo-concept-stub