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|Authors List=Paul Patton,

|Description=An ''agent'' is an entity capable of intentional action, that is, it perceives their environment and acts within it with a motive or in pursuit of a goal, choosing among multiple courses of action so as to best fulfill their goal. Instead of acting in relation to an environment, an ''epistemic agent'' acts in relation to [[Epistemic ElementsElement|epistemic elements]] such as theories, questions, and methods. The actions of an epistemic agent amount to taking [[Epistemic StancesStance|epistemic stances]] towards these elements, such as accepting or pursuing a theory, accepting a question, or employing a method. This implies that the epistemic The stances of an epistemic agent are must be ''intentional''. That isTo be so, to qualify as an ''they must satisfy the following conditions:  # the agent must have a semantic understanding of the propositions that constitute the epistemic'' element in question and of its available alternatives; and # the agentmust be able to choose from among the available alternatives with reason, an agent should meet and for the following conditionspurpose of acquiring knowledge.[[CiteRef:: Patton (2019)]]

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