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Epistemic Health, Epistemic Immunity and Epistemic Inoculation

Philosophical Studies, 2023
AbstractThis paper introduces three new concepts: epistemic health, epistemic immunity, and epistemic inoculation. Epistemic health is a measure of how well an entity (e.g. person, community, nation) is functioning with regard to various epistemic goods or ideals. It is constituted by many different factors (e.g. possessing true beliefs, being disposed
Adam Piovarchy, Scott Siskind
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Epistemic entitlement, epistemic risk and leaching [PDF]

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2022
AbstractOne type of argument to sceptical paradox proceeds by making a case that a certain kind of metaphysically “heavyweight” or “cornerstone” proposition is beyond all possible evidence and hence may not be known or justifiably believed. Crispin Wright has argued that we can concede that our rational acceptance of these propositions is evidentially ...
Moretti L, Wright C
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Propositional epistemic luck, epistemic risk, and epistemic justification [PDF]

Synthese, 2016
If a subject has a true belief, and she has good evidence for it, and there’s no evidence against it, why should it matter if she doesn’t believe on the basis of the good available evidence? After all, properly based beliefs are no likelier to be true than their corresponding improperly based beliefs, as long as the subject possesses the same good ...
Patrick Bondy, Duncan Pritchard
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Epistemic anxiety and epistemic risk

Synthese, 2022
AbstractIn this paper, I provide an account of epistemic anxiety as an emotional response to epistemic risk: the risk of believing in error. The motivation for this account is threefold. First, it makes epistemic anxiety a species of anxiety, thus rendering psychologically respectable a notion that has heretofore been taken seriously only by ...
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Epistemic justification and epistemic luck [PDF]

Synthese, 2017
Among epistemologists, it is not uncommon to relate various forms of epistemic luck to the vexed debate between internalists and externalists. But there are many internalism/externalism debates in epistemology, and it is not always clear how these debates relate to each other.
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Interrogative structures in the written didactic discourse [PDF]

Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, 2023
This paper starts from the premise that interrogative structures have significant impact on verbal behaviour and human behaviour, in general. Our analysis of this particular type of discourse is based on the assertions of E. Benveniste, according to whom
Constantin-Georgel STOICA
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Subjunctive and subject pronoun realization: a study of "no creo que"

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2016
Subjunctive mood in complement clauses is licensed under selection from certain predicates or under the scope of a modal or negation. In contexts where mood choice varies, such as the complement of a negated epistemic verb no creer, it introduces a ...
Sophie Harrington, Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux   +1 more
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Ontic or epistemic conception of explanation: A misleading distinction?

Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2023
In this paper, I discuss the differences between ontic and epistemic conceptions of scientific explanation, mainly in relation to the so-called new mechanical philosophy.
Michał Oleksowicz
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Epistemic Theodicy, Epistemic Evil, and Epistemic Responsibility

Religions, 2023
The paper explores the concept of epistemic theodicy and strengthens an argument that reconciles human fallibility with the existence of an all-powerful and benevolent God. This argument is grounded in epistemic responsibility, emphasizing our epistemic autonomy.
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(Non)epistemic modality: English must, have to and have got to and their correspondences in Lithuanian

Kalbotyra, 2017
This paper deals with the three types of modality – epistemic, deontic and dynamic. It examines the relation between the synchronic uses of the modal auxiliary must and the semi-modals have to and have got to as well as their Lithuanian translation ...
Audronė Šolienė
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