Epistemic habits are historically settled ways of knowing that remain challengeable and changeable.

Evidence

What I call “epistemic habits” are steeped in history and historical practices, ways of knowing that are available and “easy to think,” called-upon, temporarily settled dispositions that can be challenged and that change. Epistemic habits share some of the properties that Hacking’s assigns to “rock-bottom givens”—they produce “permanent momentary items of [implicit] fact.” — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 246

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the book’s central coinage ‘epistemic habits’ in one compact theoretical formulation.
• XREF: Connects to Hacking’s ‘rock-bottom givens’ and to Bourdieu’s habitus discussed just before in the paragraph.