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suspension of judgment
Also known as: suspending judgment
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Epistemic Justification – Introduction to Philosophy: Epistemology press.rebus.community 6 facts
claimIt is justified to suspend judgment on a proposition p when it is justified neither to believe p nor to disbelieve p.
claimSuspension of judgment is defined as remaining neutral about whether a proposition is true, neither believing nor disbelieving the proposition.
claimSuspension of judgment is the uniquely rational attitude to adopt when the scales of justification for a proposition are evenly balanced.
claimTo suspend judgment on a proposition p is to consider p yet neither believe nor disbelieve it, meaning one is undecided on whether p is true or false.
claimDoxastic attitudes, which are stances on the truth value of a proposition, include belief, disbelief, and suspension of judgment.
claimEpistemology recognizes three stances on the truth value of a proposition: belief, disbelief, or suspension of judgment.
Epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 2 facts
claimSkeptics in Hellenistic philosophy questioned the possibility of knowledge and recommended the suspension of judgment to attain a state of tranquility.
claimEdmund Husserl applied the skeptical idea of suspending judgment to the study of experience, attempting to describe the internal structure of experience without judging its accuracy.
Social Epistemology – Introduction to Philosophy - Rebus Press press.rebus.community 2 facts
claimIn a scenario where two equally reliable thermometers provide conflicting readings and no other evidence is available, the rational response is to suspend judgment about which reading is correct.
claimWhen evidence equally positions an individual with respect to a proposition and its negation, suspension of judgment is the unique justified attitude according to rational uniqueness.
Virtue Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 9, 1999 1 fact
claimErnest Sosa argues that the suspension of judgment is a manifestation of the competence to recognize when one is not in a position to know whether a proposition is true.