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epistemic markers

epistemic markers is the plural of epistemic marker.

Meaning of epistemic marker

Noun

epistemic marker (plural epistemic markers)

  1. A linguistic element, such as a word or phrase, that indicates the speaker's or writer's attitude or degree of certainty regarding the truth or likelihood of a statement.
    • For epistemic markers we adopt an empirically-driven approach and utilize the epistemic markers identified in a corpus of dialogical argumentation by Hautli-Janisz et al. We consider expressions such as ‘I think’, ‘it is believed’ and ‘in my opinion’ to be epistemic.2023 October 30, Herbold et al., “A large-scale comparison of human-written versus ChatGPT-generated essays”, in Scientific Reports, volume 13, page 6

Questions about epistemic markers

What is epistemic markers the plural of?
Epistemic markers is the plural of epistemic marker.

Words near epistemic markers in the dictionary

  1. epistemic circularity
  2. epistemic crises
  3. epistemic crisis
  4. epistemic logic
  5. epistemic marker
  6. epistemic markers
  7. epistemic rationality
  8. epistemic regime
  9. epistemic regimes
  10. epistemically
  11. epistemicide

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