Sentence examples for of epistemic priority from inspiring English sources

The issue here is that of epistemic priority.

A third and final sense of 'priority' in which evidence has often been thought to be prior to theory is that of epistemic priority.

Even if Philo were not bound by Hume's philosophy (and there is no evidence he should be considered a strict spokesperson for Hume), as a defender of the epistemic priority of common life he has no resources to claim that there is a different, correct form of reasoning for areas beyond common life.

It is rather a reflection of our epistemic priorities and practical concerns that we describe an object as a tree which is green, rather that as a green object which has the property of treeness.

The first tenet of Boyle's philosophy of experiment is that observation and experiment should have epistemic priority over theory.

But psychology was to be counted "last" and not "first" in epistemic priority and it "can never be the foundation of our whole philosophy" (ibid., p. 468).

In his Cartesian Meditations, Husserl still seems to address the problem of other minds from within the framework of a Cartesian conception of the mind; at least in the sense that he gives epistemic priority to the first person perspective.

Principle E4 (Data Priority) reveals that Thagard's theory is not a pure coherence theory, as it gives some epistemic priority to observational beliefs, making it rather a form of weak foundationalism.

Other commentators disagree: Morwenna Ludlow, for instance, argues that epistemic priority resides primarily in the Spirit in Gregory's theology.

Battaly H (2014) Varieties of epistemic vice.

It is in the latter sense that epistemic vices are vices: they are defects of epistemic character or conduct.