Epistemic status refers to the degree of belief the writer has in the statements made in some writing. Many writers place epistemic status tags at the top of their writings.
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Examples
- Slate Star Codex uses epistemic status tags. You can find some examples through a Google search.
- gwern calls these tags confidence tags. He explains these in a section on his website. Note that they used to be called belief tags.
- Vipul Naik, e.g. in a blog post
Variants
- Epistemic effort
- “Meta information” section on Timelines Wiki; example