Epistemic-frame is a human-made conceptual structure — a framework of assumptions, categories, and norms that determines what counts as knowledge, evidence, or truth within a given context. Its parameters: (1) a set of epistemic commitments (what is taken as foundational), (2) criteria for valid evidence and justification, (3) boundary conditions specifying what falls inside or outside the frame's domain of authority, (4) a transmission mechanism through which the frame is taught, reinforced, or contested. The persistence mechanism is discourse and institutional practice: epistemic-frames endure through teaching, citation, methodological enforcement, and the social reproduction of what counts as legitimate inquiry within disciplines, traditions, or communities. A shift in epistemic-frame reconfigures not what is known but what can count as knowing — the rules of the epistemic game itself. [formal: enuntiatio | substrate: mind | horizon: a life | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.01]
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epistemic-frame
Epistemic-frame is a human-made conceptual structure — a framework of assumptions, categories, and norms that determines what counts as knowledge, evidence, or truth within a given context. Its parameters: (1) a set of epistemic commitment…
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Epistemic-frame is a human-made construct: a structured system of concepts, assumptions, and methods that a community uses to organize, validate, and transmit knowledge. It is an institution of thought — produced by scholarly practices, educational systems, and intellectual traditions — that determines what counts as evidence, what questions are askable, and what answers are acceptable within a domain of inquiry.
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- epistemic-frameen · CANONICAL
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Epistemic-frame IS a specific kind of paradigm (Law 9). An epistemic frame is a structured conceptual framework that determines what counts as knowledge, evidence, and truth within a discourse. A competent speaker would call an epistemic frame 'a kind of paradigm' — it is the paradigm in its epistemic dimension, governing what can be known and how.
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An anomaly only exists relative to an existing framework. Remove the epistemic frame that establishes what counts as expected — and the anomaly ceases to operate as an anomaly. The removal test is constitutive: without a frame to violate, there is no anomaly. This is not sayability (Law 2b) but object-level dependency.
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Removal test: an epistemic vice (closed-mindedness, intellectual dishonesty, etc.) only operates as a violation within an epistemic framework that establishes epistemic norms. Remove the epistemic frame and the vice ceases to function as a vice — there are no standards to violate. This is constitutive, not sayability.
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