A human-made cognitive framework — a category for the suite of mental mechanisms by which agents assess, filter, and weigh the reliability of information received from others. Parameters: (1) target is always testimony or claim from an external source, not self-generated belief; (2) operates through credibility heuristics, source-tracking, and consistency-checking; (3) persists through language (concepts like trust, authority, expertise), social norms, and disciplinary training in epistemology and scientific method. The map distinguishes competent from defective source-evaluation, enabling societies to maintain knowledge quality across distributed cognition. [formal: vigilantia epistemica | substrate: mind | horizon: a life | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.68]
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epistemic-vigilance
A human-made cognitive framework — a category for the suite of mental mechanisms by which agents assess, filter, and weigh the reliability of information received from others. Parameters: (1) target is always testimony or claim from an ext…
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Why it is in scope
The concept of epistemic vigilance — a framework humans built to categorize and manage the cognitive mechanisms for evaluating the reliability of others' claims, testimony, and information. It is a made map for navigating trust, credibility, and source-evaluation in social knowledge exchange.
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- epistemic-vigilanceen · CANONICAL
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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.
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Epistemic vigilance is a specific kind of vigilance — vigilance applied to cognitive and testimonial sources. The specific-to-general direction: epistemic vigilance IS A vigilance.
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- Jul 19, 2026, 10:19 AM UTC
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