Epistemic Status as Relative to An Audience but Objective: Revision history

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    9 August 2022

    • curprev 14:4014:40, 9 August 2022Pooyamo talk contribs 4,470 bytes +4,470 Created page with ";'''§3.1''' To be known is to be known to ''someone'', and different people know different things. In an argument, premises are being offered to ''someone'' as a reason to accept some conclusion. Let’s call the person or people to whom an argument is being given the audience. Clearly, then, in assessing the premises of an argument, what we need to figure out is whether ''the audience knows them''—or, more generally, what their epistemic status is for the audience...."