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Knowing where your knowledge ends

Epistemic humility means recognising limits without giving up on evidence.

Epistemic humility is a willingness to acknowledge that your knowledge is incomplete and your interpretation could be mistaken. It does not require pretending to know nothing. You can hold a well-supported view while remaining open to a better explanation.

A useful habit is to distinguish what you observed, what you inferred and what you have not checked. Those distinctions make disagreement more productive because they show where additional evidence could matter. They also make it easier to change your mind without treating revision as a personal defeat.

A small example

“The deliveries were late on three days” is an observation. “The supplier no longer cares” is an interpretation that needs more evidence.

Keep in mind

Being open to correction does not require giving unsupported claims the same weight as strong evidence.

Source & attribution

Introduction to Philosophy — Developing Good Habits of Mind

OpenStax contributors · OpenStax, Rice University

CC BY 4.0. Rewritten as a self-contained explanation; the example and reflection are Vakataka additions. Written and edited with AI assistance. No source images reproduced.

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