S01 E07: Epistemic Card, Provisional Position
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In this episode, Chingachgook and Howard Roark ascertain the following terms and definitions:
Epistemic Card—“a pathological form of rebuttal that seeks to reject a given proposition by appealing to uncertainty regarding descriptive claims”
Provisional Position—“a method to proceed in the face of epistemic uncertainty, characterized by the binding of one or more claims to a single causal sequence (i.e., an ‘if-then’ statement), temporarily forgoing the need to affirm the antecedent (of that sequence)”



