I guess it’s just that I don’t feel mastery over my communication here, I still anticipate that I will find it clunky to add in a whole chunk of sentences to communicate my epistemic status.
I anticipate often in the future that I’ll feel a need to write a whole paragraph, say in the political case, just to clarify that though I think it’s worth considering the possibility that the politician is somehow manipulating the evidence, I’ve seen no cause to believe it in this case. I feel like bringing up the hypothesis with a quick “though I’m tracking the possibility that Adam is somehow manipulating the evidence for political gain” pretty commonly implies that the speaker (me) thinks it is likely enough to be worth acting on, and so I feel I have to explicitly rule that out as why I’m bringing it up, leaving me with my rather long sentence from above.
“I think it’s worth tracking the hypothesis that the politician wants me to believe that this policy worked in order to pad their reputation, and I will put some effort into checking for evidence of that, but to be clear I haven’t seen any positive evidence for that hypothesis in this case, and will not be acting in accordance with that hypothesis unless I do.”
I guess it’s just that I don’t feel mastery over my communication here, I still anticipate that I will find it clunky to add in a whole chunk of sentences to communicate my epistemic status.
I anticipate often in the future that I’ll feel a need to write a whole paragraph, say in the political case, just to clarify that though I think it’s worth considering the possibility that the politician is somehow manipulating the evidence, I’ve seen no cause to believe it in this case. I feel like bringing up the hypothesis with a quick “though I’m tracking the possibility that Adam is somehow manipulating the evidence for political gain” pretty commonly implies that the speaker (me) thinks it is likely enough to be worth acting on, and so I feel I have to explicitly rule that out as why I’m bringing it up, leaving me with my rather long sentence from above.