Local Action Availability (Allen-2023)

This is a definition of Local Action Availability that states "A local action A is said to be available to an epistemic agent iff that agent employs the norm “A is permissible/desirable”."

This definition of Local Action Availability was formulated by Joshua Allen in 2023.1

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Modification	Community	Date Suggested	Summary	Verdict	Verdict Rationale	Date Assessed
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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Description

Allen explains that to say that a local epistemic action is available to an epistemic agent amounts to saying that the agent employs the norm that such an action is permissible/desirable/obligatory/etc.1p. 79

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