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Journal articles on the topic "Epistemic ambiguity"

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Satta, Mark. "CONTEXTUALISM AND THE AMBIGUITY THEORY OF ‘KNOWS’." Episteme 17, no. 2 (2018): 209–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/epi.2018.36.

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ABSTRACTThe ambiguity theory of ‘knows’ is the view that ‘knows’ and its cognates have more than one sense, and that which sense of ‘knows’ is used in a knowledge ascription or denial determines, in part, the meaning (and as a result the truth conditions) of that knowledge ascription or denial. In this paper, I argue that the ambiguity theory of ‘knows’ ought to be taken seriously by those drawn to epistemic contextualism. In doing so I first argue that the ambiguity theory of ‘knows’ is a distinct view from epistemic contextualism. Second, I provide independent philosophical and linguistic co

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McGrath, Molly Brigid. "The Insidious Ambiguity of “Ideology”." Social Philosophy and Policy 41, no. 1 (2024): 62–83. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0265052524000323.

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AbstractThis essay identifies and explores three dominant intellectual traditions that critique and theorize about ideology: Marxist, prudentialist, and social scientific. For these traditions, the word ‘ideology’ names interest-serving rationalizations, pseudoscientific totalitarian zealotry, or political outlooks. The blending of these three specialized meanings has generated a colloquial sense of ideology that is philosophically untenable and damaging to political discourse. According to this colloquial sense, all thinking is ideological and we are all ideologues. In response, I instead off

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Hazlett, Allan. "WHAT DOES “EPISTEMIC” MEAN?" Episteme 13, no. 4 (2016): 539–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/epi.2016.29.

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ABSTRACTIn this paper I consider the meaning of the term “epistemic.” I discuss the idea that “epistemic” means “of or relating to knowledge,” and consider some uses of “epistemic” that do not jibe with this characterization of its meaning. I argue that “epistemic” is ambiguous: it is sometimes used to mean “of or relating to knowledge” and sometimes to mean “of or relating to belief.” I raise some worries about this ambiguity, and sympathetically consider the prospects for eliminating “epistemic” from our philosophical lexicon.

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Abraham, Kavi Joseph. "What is race? Epistemic ambiguity and liberal international order." International Affairs 100, no. 4 (2024): 1615–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiae129.

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Abstract There is increasing interest in how anticolonial actors advanced a norm of racial equality in mid-century formations of liberal international order (LIO). Less attention, however, is afforded to simultaneous epistemic conflicts over the scientific object of ‘race’ and their political effects. During postwar order-building and alongside political struggles for racial equality, there was wide and deep scientific debate on the analytical utility of race as a means to categorize human diversity. Race, I demonstrate, was rendered as epistemically ambiguous, caught between social scientists

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Kozlova, Natalya Yu. "On the Epistemic Functionality of Language." Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 62, no. 2 (2025): 89–105. https://doi.org/10.5840/eps202562224.

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This article seeks to broaden the scope of research on contemporary neurocognitive approaches to language comprehension by examining it through the lens of linguistic-philosophical analysis, with a focus on its epistemic functionality. The central issue addressed is the linguistic “assembly” of meaning – that is, how language structures perceptual experience and shapes the cognitive intentions of the subject. The study explores key features of natural language functioning, including epistemic focus, semantic ambiguity, and unconscious processing. Through an analysis of meaning differentiation

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Freitas, Raquel Coelho de, and Luciana Nogueira Nóbrega. "Epistemic indignation and decolonization of the concept of minorities." Revista Direito e Práxis 14, no. 3 (2023): 1742–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2179-8966/2022/62119i.

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Abstract This paper proposes the epistemic indignation as a logical and decolonizing way to reflect on the concept of minorities in contemporary Law. Using bibliographic research and analyzing the social history of the concept of minorities, we seek to demonstrate its ambiguity: while recognizing rights, it hides power relations which create, reinforce and update social, economic and epistemic injustices.

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Frana, Ilaria, and Kyle Rawlins. "Unconditional concealed questions and Heim's ambiguity." Semantics and Linguistic Theory 21 (September 3, 2011): 495. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/salt.v21i0.2623.

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In this paper, we investigate Concealed Questions (CQs) in the context of headed unconditionals. We observe that although CQs are licensed in unconditionals, the distribution of readings involved in Heim’s Ambiguity (Heim 1979) does not match that found in attitude contexts. Furthermore, the distribution of readings varies by verb class (epistemic vs. communication verbs). We propose that unconditional concealed questions involve questions derived from the denotation of the DP via a specially devised type-shifter, and show how this can block the unwanted readings in exactly the right cases. He

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Gearin, Alex K. "On the ambiguity of psychedelic awe in China." Anthropology Today 39, no. 6 (2023): 18–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12849.

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Psychology research frequently portrays the epistemic emotion of wonder as an intrinsic good. However, anthropologists highlight that social contexts shape its ambiguous political and moral potential. This concise article explores the awe‐inspiring DMT experience of a Chinese psychedelic user, which involves a humiliating encounter with a cosmic surveillance state. Analogous to the mood of wonder, the ambiguity inherent to psychedelic states originates from an existential vulnerability. This openness facilitates a wide range of potential social, moral, and psychological projects.

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Ilkhanipour, Negin. "Tense and modality in the nominal domain." Linguistica 56, no. 1 (2016): 143–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/linguistica.56.1.143-160.

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It is well discussed in the literature that epistemic modals (Mod epis) are base-generated higher than Tense (T), while non-epistemic/root modals (Mod root) are base-generated lower than T, and that high modals are evaluated in the context of the speech event (i.e., with regard to the speaker at the speech time), whereas low modals are evaluated in the context of the VP event (with regard to an argument at the event time). In this study, looking with favour upon the presence of tense and modal functional projections in the nominal domain, and following the idea that adjectives are basegenerate

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Jeong, Sunwoo. "QUD effects on epistemic containment principle." ZAS Papers in Linguistics 60 (January 1, 2018): 487–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.60.2018.478.

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The Epistemic Containment Principle (ECP) requires that epistemic modals takewider scope than strong quantifiers such as every or most (von Fintel and Iatridou, 2003). Althoughfairly robust in its realization, a few systemic classes of counterexamples to the ECPhave been noted. Based on these, previous work has argued for two claims: subjective modalsobey the ECP, whereas objective ones don’t (Tancredi, 2007; Anand and Hacquard, 2008); andevery respects the ECP, whereas each violates it (Tancredi, 2007). This paper argues that explicitQuestions Under Discussion (QUDs; Roberts, 1996; Ginzburg,

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Epistemic ambiguity"

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Dastmalchian, Amir. "Religious diversity in contemporary philosophy of religion: The ?ambiguity? objection to epistemic exclusivism." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2010. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.748552.

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Books on the topic "Epistemic ambiguity"

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Huutoniemi, Katri, and Ismael Rafols. Interdisciplinarity in Research Evaluation. Edited by Robert Frodeman. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198733522.013.40.

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The evaluation of interdisciplinary research is complicated by ambiguity about what interdisciplinarity is and what it should be. The question is topical, as evaluation plays an important role in how science is being shaped and changed today. The chapter performs a meta-analysis of the concept of interdisciplinarity in research evaluation, and gives an epistemic account of what would be involved in such evaluations. First, it discusses the various ways interdisciplinarity can add value to the disciplinary organization of academia and their respective implications for research evaluation. Secon

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Scerri, Eric, and Elena Ghibaudi, eds. What Is A Chemical Element? Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190933784.001.0001.

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The term “element” is typically used in two distinct senses. First it is taken to mean isolated simple substances such as the green gas chlorine or the yellow solid sulphur. In some languages, including English, it is also used to denote an underlying abstract concept that subsumes simple substances but possesses no properties as such. The allotropes and isotopes of carbon, for example, all represent elements in the sense of simple substances. However, the unique position for the element carbon in the periodic table refers to the abstract sense of “element.” The dual definition of elements pro

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Book chapters on the topic "Epistemic ambiguity"

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Rohmann, Florian, Lisa Ebert, Elias-Jason Güthlein, and Carolin Munderich. "The Case of Epistemic Ambiguity and Its Strategic Production." In Strategies of Ambiguity. Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003298083-7.

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Coppola, Claudia, Giorgia Mannaioli, and Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri. "Chapter 4. Vagueness and ambiguity are very different (persuasion devices)." In Pragmatics & Beyond New Series. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.347.04cop.

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Without taking a strong theoretical stance on the terminological boundary between ambiguity and vagueness, we suggest that, at least when considered as persuasion devices, they are quite different and almost opposite phenomena. We suggest that vagueness is effectively persuasive in that it can specifically divert epistemic vigilance from questionable or unpleasant contents. Ambiguity, conversely, encodes multiple meanings drawing additional attention to the message. We support such claims through examples from markedly persuasive texts and through the results of a self-paced reading experiment

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Elmuradov, Aziz. "Making Sense of Central Asia Sources of Epistemic Uncertainty." In SpringerBriefs in Political Science. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39024-1_2.

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AbstractCentral Asia is in flux, and so are the perspectives and angles of intellectual inquiry, as are the modes of and approaches to the scientific investigation of the region. This paper sets out to discuss the role of academic positionality essential to this flux—caught between modernity and tradition—and reflects on one of its striking effects, epistemic ambiguity. In light of knowledge-related turns in the social sciences, notably, the epistemological twists and turns entailed in postmodernist, postcolonial, decolonial, and feminist critique, the study of academic positionality and its i

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Wu, Jiun-Shiung. "Ambiguity of Epistemic Hui in Mandarin Chinese Revisited: Toward a Unified Semantics." In Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics. Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9240-6_4.

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Cassam, Quassim. "A Question of Character." In Vices of the Mind. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826903.003.0002.

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This chapter focuses on epistemic vices that are character traits and, in particular, on the epistemic vice of closed-mindedness. The nature and significance of this epistemic vice is explained by reference of the failure of Israeli intelligence to anticipate the 1973 Yom Kippur surprise attack on Israel. Closed-mindedness is a high-fidelity epistemic vice, that is, one that requires a high degree of behavioural consistency. It is underpinned in many cases by a high need for closure and a low tolerance for ambiguity. Character accounts of epistemic vice are not undermined by situationism but t

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Bishop, John. "The Epistemic Justifiability of Faith‐beliefs: An Ambiguity Thesis." In Believing by Faith. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199205547.003.0003.

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"3. Epistemic Cultures of Collaboration: Coherence and Ambiguity in Interdisciplinarity." In Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration. Rutgers University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.36019/9780813585918-006.

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Hayes, Catherine. "Driving Agentic Empowerment With Metatheory." In Handbook of Research on Solutions for Equity and Social Justice in Education. IGI Global, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9678-4.ch002.

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Making meaning from experience belies all approaches to the facilitation of transformative learning in practice. This chapter provides an insight into how this process of activating epistemic transformations takes place at the front line of educational provision with students. By incorporating the theoretical basis of social constructivist learning principles, the consideration of concepts such as critical thinking, critical discourse, and their relationships to heuristics and bias are used to drive the challenging of presuppositions and assumptions in self-reflective practice. The chapter con

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Hayes, Catherine. "Meaning Making and Adaptive Change to Crisis." In Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership. IGI Global, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-8125-0.ch005.

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Making meaning from experience belies all approaches to the facilitation of transformative learning in practice. This chapter provides an insight into how this process of activating epistemic transformations takes place at the front line of educational provision with students. By incorporating the theoretical basis of social constructivist learning principles, the consideration of concepts such as critical thinking, critical discourse and their relationships to heuristics and bias are used to drive the challenging of presuppositions and assumptions in self-reflective practice. The chapter cons

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Church, David. "Apprehension Engines: Defining a New Wave of Art-Horror Cinema." In Post-Horror. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474475884.003.0001.

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This chapter introduces the term “post-horror” and positions it as an emergent cycle within the longer traditions of art cinema and specifically art-horror cinema. The chapter argues that post-horror films are distinguished by their minimalist aesthetic, their use of epistemic and narrative ambiguity, and their de-sensationalized approach to genre conventions. Prioritizing atmospheres of lingering dread and physical/emotion isolation instead of monsters and jump scares, these films evince a tonal distance from more mainstream genre expectations. Hence, by crossing over from the arthouse/festiv

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Conference papers on the topic "Epistemic ambiguity"

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Farhangmehr, Farzaneh, and Irem Y. Tumer. "The Capture, Assessment and Communication Tool for Uncertainty Simulation (CACTUS) in Complex Systems." In ASME 2008 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2008-66975.

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The design and development cycle for complex systems is full of uncertainty, commonly recognized as the main source of risk in organizations engaged in design and development. One of the challenges for such organizations is assessing how much risk (cost, schedule, scope) they can take on and still remain competitive. The risk associated with the design of complex systems is fundamentally tied to uncertainty, which may lead to suboptimal performance or failure if unmanaged. By understanding the sources of uncertainty in all stages of complex system design, decision-makers can make more informed

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Reports on the topic "Epistemic ambiguity"

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MINEEVA, M. COMMENTARY AS A MEANS OF EPISTEMIC VIGILANCE. Science and Innovation Center Publishing House, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2077-1770-2021-13-4-2-104-110.

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The article is devoted to the analysis of commentary as a means of overcoming ambiguity when interpreting English literary text. In terms of epistemic vigilance theory, commentary is considered as an important cognitive mechanism of text processing and defining credibility of information presented in the text.

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Teixeira, Mariana. Vulnerability: A Critical Tool for Conviviality-Inequality Studies. Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.46877/teixeira.2022.44.

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The aim of this working paper is to foster the concept of “vulnerability” as a critical tool for social theory in general and conviviality-inequality studies in particular. First, to clarify the concept, an analytical distinction is established between vulnerability as either an experiential structure shared by all persons (constitutive vulnerability) or as historical social injustice that detrimentally impacts some more than others (contingent vulnerability). The paper then explores the contrast between approaches to epistemic injustice theory and standpoint epistemology as two opposing views

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