Sentences with phrase «epistemic argument»

Moreover, the devices of such corruption are sophisticated and often function indirectly, by infiltrating the terms of ethical and epistemic argument.»

Not exact matches

And in addition to the moral argument for the necessity of interreligious apologetics, there is also a strictly intellectual one, having to do with my epistemic duties.

Hartshorne uses versions of the cosmological, design, epistemic, moral, and aesthetic arguments to buttress this claim.

It is possible to understand the epistemological argument in terms of past responsibility in violating our epistemic duties or future fear of irrationality.

Since epistemic considerations bear an analogy to moral considerations, e.g., there are moral duties to act and epistemic duties to believe, there is moral praise for responsible behavior and epistemic praise for rational behavior, it may be helpful to clarify the epistemological argument with an ethical analogue (cf. IdSe 13 - 16).

According to the epistemological argument, on the ancestral chain model one can not have full - blown epistemic acts wherein a chain of reasoning in thought through and a conclusion drawn.

I'm all ears for arguments that claim to have the best, most reliable or valid approach to problems, but the achievement of objectivity tends to be a rhetorical device, often used in opposition to what are declared as non - objective / non-scientific arguments, rather than something which can be defended on epistemic grounds.

The disagreement is not so much about observational evidence, but rather about the epistemic status of climate models, the logics used to link the observational evidence into arguments, the overall framing of the problem and overconfident conclusions in the face of incomplete evidence and understanding.

Such claim is so strong that one could use it in an argument to reject just about any use of modality in expressing an epistemic state.