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Epistemic humility — Wikipedia (en)

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In the philosophy of science, epistemic humility is a posture of scientific observation rooted in the recognition that (a) knowledge of the world is always interpreted, structured, and filtered by the observer, and that, as such, (b) scientific pronouncements must be built on the recognition of observation's inability to grasp the world in itself. The concept is frequently attributed to the traditions of German idealism, particularly the work of Immanuel Kant, and to British empiricism, including the writing of David Hume. Other histories of the concept trace its origin to the humility theory of wisdom attributed to Socrates in Plato's Apology. James Van Cleve describes the Kantian version of epistemic humility—i.e. that we have no knowledge of things in their "nonrelational respects or ‘in themselves'"—as a form of causal structuralism. More recently, the term has appeared in scholarship in postcolonial theory and critical theory to describe a subject-position of openness to other ways of 'knowing' beyond epistemologies that derive from the Western tradition.

Tema degli esploratori: storia e filosofia della scienza (deposito sistematico; categoria «Philosophy of science»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Epistemic humility» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic_humility
Wikidata Q65091874: «philosophical view of scientific observation» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65091874
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