The phrase "epistemic value" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions related to knowledge, belief, and the value of information in epistemology.
Example: "In evaluating scientific theories, we must consider their epistemic value in contributing to our understanding of the natural world."
Alternatives: "knowledge value" or "cognitive value."
What is the nature of epistemic value and how is knowledge distinctively epistemically valuable?
More commonly, defenders of the epistemic value of religious experience claim that the experiences make it epistemically permissible to form the belief, but you may also be justified in not forming the belief.
Perceived functional value serves as the preliminary conditions that mediate the effect of the perceived epistemic value on attitude.
Perceived contextual value influences users' attitude and intention via the mediation of perceived epistemic value and perceived functional value.
The impact agenda can be seen to unearth moral questions about epistemic value and responsbility, with many of the narratives provided by participants implying a tension, increasingly apparent between intellectual ideals about the defense of intrinsic epistemic value, vs. the moral imperative or responsibility that knowledge ought to be instrumentally useful to society.
Further, it argues that in this role, the Helmholtz Club served many purposes, the primary of which was to be a social forum for interdisciplinary discussion, where 'discussion' was not mere talk but was imbued with an epistemic value and as such, carefully cultivated.
The key to the epistemic value of models does not lie in their being accurate representations of some real target systems but rather in their independent systemic construction that enables scientists to draw inferences and reason through constructing models and manipulating them.
I will argue that the traditional representational approach is too limiting as regards the epistemic value of modelling given the focus on the relationship between a single model and its supposed target system, and the neglect of the actual representational means with which scientists construct models.
Much of the debate regarding epistemic value has focussed on the value of knowledge.
The Bayesian model provides for a representation of an important epistemic value of testimony.
Similarly, the epistemic value of a belief cannot be raised by the reliability of the source.
