Mechanism of Local Epistemic Action Availability
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How does a local epistemic action become available to an epistemic agent? What should happen for a local epistemic action to become part of the repertoire of an epistemic agent?
As local actions become available to some agents during some periods (rather than to all agents at all times), it is important to unearth the mechanism by which such an action becomes part of an agent's repertoire.
In the scientonomic context, this question was first formulated by Joshua Allen in 2023.
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Theory | Formulation | Formulated In |
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Local Action Availability theorem (Allen-2023) | A local epistemic action becomes available to an agent only when its permissibility/desirability is derivable from a non-empty subset of other elements of the agent’s mosaic. | 2023 |
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Modification | Community | Date Suggested | Summary | Verdict | Verdict Rationale | Date Assessed |
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Sciento-2023-0007 | Scientonomy | 31 December 2023 | Accept that the a local action A is said to be available to an epistemic agent iff that agent employs the norm “A is permissible/desirable”. Also accept the theorem of local action availability as a deductive consequence of this definition and the law of norm employment: a local epistemic action becomes available to an agent only when its permissibility/desirability is derivable from a non-empty subset of other elements of the agent’s mosaic. | Open | The modification can only become accepted once modification Sciento-2023-0006 becomes accepted. |
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