Epistemic closure

[Jonathan Lighter]

> The term refers to a situation where the information you receive is
biased.

Surely it's more complicated than just turning a blind eye to good
evidence. The sentence Victor quotes is decidedly unhelpful.

I doubt that Brooks fully absorbed the article Ben refers to; therefore I
doubt that he's using the term as a logician was.



JL

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wrote:

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> On NPR today, probably "All Things Considered," David Brooks talked =
> about "epistemic closure" in connection with the Republicans being =
> blindsided by the election results. I believe he also described that =
> term as an "information bias" and an "information cocoon." The term =
> refers to a situation where the information you receive is biased.
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> "Epistemic deductive closure" in 1976: http://ow.ly/faTca
> "Epistemic closure" in 1985: http://ow.ly/faTed
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> On April 27, 2010, Victor Steinbok quotes the term from a same-day =
> article at =
> http://prospect.org/article/what-new-black-panther-case-actually-about.=20=
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