Sentences with phrase «epistemic closure»

«When people live in epistemic closure, they are immune to integrity because they only trust people who already agree with their ideology.

I used to be something of a skeptic when it came to claims of «filter bubbles» — the sort of epistemic closure that comes from only seeing material you agree with on social platforms.

Most people take the easy way out — ignoring the opposing view and calling their interlocutor a hypocrite or some other nice epistemic closure.

Nevertheless, there's a difference between motivated reasoning and complete epistemic closure, which is what the right has achieved on climate (and other issues as well).

This sort of cranky epistemic closure is something to behold.

But denying the mechanism and origin of the greenhouse effect itself is frivolous, representing epistemic closure on a Dickmorrisian level.

But in order to do so, he will have to overcome his epistemic closure and override his backfire effect reflex.