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The epistemic/pragmatic dichotomy
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posted on 2023-06-08, 14:30 authored by Paul LoaderAlthough Kirsh and Maglio’s work on ‘epistemic’ and ‘pragmatic’ action provides us with some valuable insights, the degree of overlap, or interpenetration, between these two terms suggests that there is something problematic in the distinction. On one analysis, it might be suggested that epistemic and pragmatic actions are not both ‘types of action’ in the same sense and, perhaps, that there may not be a strong sense in which ‘pragmatic actions’ are a type of action at all. Things are further complicated by definitional issues. In the case of ‘epistemic action’, if the conception of what counts as such is too wide-ranging the term ceases to be useful.
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Philosophical ExplorationsISSN
1386-9795Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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2Volume
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219-232Department affiliated with
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2013-02-21Usage metrics
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