Evolutionary epistemology models modal ontology

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personal or subjective = epistemology, where we describe the actual, interpret the possible and norm the probable, if we are interested in evaluating them ... relational or inter-/intra- = models ... functional or objective = ontology, where the actual is described, the possible is interpreted and the probable is normed, if one has an interest in evaluating them. thus an evolutionary epistemology models a modal ontology via a contrite fallibilism naive realists pretty much ignore reality's interpretive dynamic, failing, therefore, to distinguish the probably actual from the merely possible radical deconstructionists pretty much ignore reality's probabilistic dynamic, failing, therefore, to draw such distinctions as the certain, probable, plausible, possible, impossible, improbable, implausible, uncertain ... literally leveling the epistemic playing field


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