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...="Olsson" /> One advantage of its formal method in contrast to traditional epistemology is that its concepts and theorems can be defined with a high degree of prec ...her. The Bayesian approach has also been fruitful in the field of [[social epistemology]], for example, concerning the problem of [[testimony]] or the problem of g ...

...s different fields. In [[epistemology]], evidence is what [[Justification (epistemology)|justifies]] [[beliefs]] or what makes it [[rational]] to hold a certain [[ ...rm is also used. In academic discourse, evidence plays a central role in [[epistemology]] and in the [[philosophy of science]]. Reference to evidence is made in ma ...

...d or correct decisions. Epistemic democrats believe that the legitimacy or justification of democratic government should not be exclusively based on the intrinsic v ...ten take there to be an important instrumental component to any defence or justification of democratic government. ...

...c and apply it to other fields, such as [[metaphysics]], [[ethics]], and [[epistemology]]. Deviant logics, on the other hand, reject certain classical intuitions a ...sion of logical topics with or without formal devices and on the role of [[epistemology]] for the assessment of arguments.{{sfnm|1a1=Craig|1y=1996|1loc=Formal and ...

...henomenological Approaches to Physics |series=Synthese Library (Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science) |volume=429 |publisher=Spri ...ung, in contrast, is a relation between different contexts which finds its justification in the predictive success of quantum physics. ...

{{defn |1=Knowledge or justification is said to be a posteriori if it depends on empirical evidence or experienc {{defn |1=Knowledge or justification is said to be a priori if it is independent of empirical evidence or experi ...

...confidently assert claims of fact which do not seem to be [[Justification (epistemology)|justified]] by their [[training data]], a phenomenon which has been termed ...