Epistemology

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4 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Epistemology.

• Lottery paradox — The inconsistency between accepting each highly probable claim that an individual lottery ticket will lose and accepting the certain claim that some ticket will win.
• Phenomenal conservatism — The epistemic principle that if it seems to a subject that p, that seeming supplies prima facie justification for believing p unless defeated by contrary evidence or reliability concerns.
• Radical constructivism — An epistemology treating knowledge as viable organization of experience rather than verifiable correspondence with a mind-independent world.
• Transcendental idealism — Kant’s doctrine that objects of experience appear under a priori forms and categories supplied by cognition, while things in themselves are not thereby known.