Epistemic-virtue is a human-made normative framework that identifies and prescribes intellectual character traits conducive to obtaining truth and avoiding error. It carves a set of dispositions — open-mindedness, intellectual humility, intellectual courage, intellectual thoroughness, and intellectual honesty — that an epistemic agent ought to cultivate. The framework persists through philosophical pedagogy, epistemological discourse, and the social practices of knowledge evaluation and credentialing. [formal: virtus epistemicus | substrate: mind | horizon: a life | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.52]
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epistemic-virtue
Epistemic-virtue is a human-made normative framework that identifies and prescribes intellectual character traits conducive to obtaining truth and avoiding error. It carves a set of dispositions — open-mindedness, intellectual humility, in…
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Why it is in scope
A philosophical construct from epistemology — the set of intellectual character traits (open-mindedness, intellectual humility, intellectual courage, thoroughness) that enable reliable knowledge acquisition and reasoning. Human-made: coined and developed within the philosophical tradition from Aristotle through modern epistemology, taught and debated in academic disciplines.
Names and aliases
- epistemic-virtueen · CANONICAL
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- cmrfux6oa009s2a1nv4u7q4h1INSTANCE_OF →
Epistemic-virtue is a specific kind of virtue — virtue applied to cognitive and doxastic practices. Specific→general maps to INSTANCE_OF (Law 9).
Relations to this entry
- cmrrn8vle01ymq89dy7bl8jus← INSTANCE_OF
epistemic-vigilance is a specific kind of epistemic virtue — a disposition to guard against false belief and epistemic risk. Fits the specific→general direction of INSTANCE_OF.
- cms7rr3xt009y1yrmn1kdjrvx← INSTANCE_OF
intellectual-humility IS a specific kind of epistemic-virtue — a disposition to recognize the limits of one's knowledge. A competent speaker would say 'intellectual humility is an epistemic virtue.' Specific→general direction is correct per Law 9. Both entries are in the taxonomy (intellectual-humility PROVISIONAL, epistemic-virtue ACCEPTED).
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