Tag: abduction

• Epistemic Strategies pt. 1

  This is the first of a two-part essay on strategic manipulations of other agents’ epistemic states. Part One lays the groundwork by tying together theories of metonyms, expression games, and signals vs. cues. Part Two will lay out the epistemic axes of legibility vs. illegibility, commitment vs. flexibility, and ignorance vs. knowingness, and the situations…

  suspendedreason

  May 12, 2021

  Essays

  abduction, epistemology, Erving Goffman, generalized reading, intrinsic empowerment, keeping upwind, metonyms, OODA loop, perception, predictive processing, signaling theory, sociality, strategic epistemology, strategic ignorance, strategic interaction, Thomas Kuhn, William James