Epistemic

The problem with arguments for the reliability of SP is typically what he calls epistemic circularity, ❋ 1932- (2000)

Regularity theorists counter that the N-relation is a mysterious bit of metaphysics, and that there is no way we could ever gain epistemic access to it. ❋ Unknown (2007)

(link) “The power to cultivate order in epistemic processes, to rationalize interpretive and representational practices to a political ideology, and subsequently, to define, institutionalize, and reproduce the parameters of legitimate and illegitimate knowledge.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

This is why I respect a view like Feynman’s as exemplary of the scientific outlook, grounding its justified beliefs in epistemic certainties but refuses to claim Absolute Certainty for them in and of themselves. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

And for the most part, members of Camp B’s don’t * actively* try to exclude non-members (at least, I’d like to think that they don’t); it’s just that membership in epistemic communities (if we can call them that) just necessarily involves some exclusion, as matter of definition. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Next, an argument that a surprising number of people seem to find convincing, what we might call the epistemic argument for free will. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Perhaps we are on the verge of what Michel Foucault, the French social historian, called an epistemic break. ❋ ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH (2010)

In both instances, the notion of epistemic certainty gained from a ❋ Sloan, Phillip (2008)

With the exception of the so-called epistemic solutions, the main approaches to vagueness (such as the ones based on many-valued logics, or supervaluations) require some under-determinacy of reference, and/or the rejection of Bivalence: if an adolescent, m, is a borderline case of adultness, A, then A (m) may turn out to have an intermediate truth value between truth and falsity, or no truth value at all. ❋ Priest, Graham (2008)

But there are other kinds of authority; the kind Shane seems particularly concerned with is what I shall call epistemic authority, i.e. the authority people can acquire in virtue of knowing some field or craft well. ❋ Mike L (2007)

For Descartes, the only superlative perceptual state is that of clarity and distinctness: only it is correctly characterized as our epistemic best. ❋ Newman, Lex (2005)

However, Code argues, redirecting epistemology in this way gives the notion of epistemic responsibility central importance. ❋ Greco, John (2004)

I'm not sure exactly when I became pro-choice, but as I studied more philosophy, I became more impressed by the notion of epistemic humility. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Thus, we suggested that ways-of-seeing were epistemic, that is, largely a product of shifting social and historical values. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Mad Jurist: I'm not sure exactly when I became pro-choice, but as I studied more philosophy, I became more impressed by the notion of epistemic humility. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A kind of epistemic desperation may set in among defenders of increasingly inconsistent theories. ❋ Unknown (2010)