This is indeed a crux; I view this as not relevant to the question of whether a rule is called “epistemic” or not. I see it as less about whether you are “catering to” or trying to “overcome” cognitive biases in yourself or in your reader, and more about whether you’re accurately modeling the consequences of your actions.
Conflating epistemics with considerations like this is deadly to epistemics. If we’re going to approach epistemic rationality in this fashion, then we ought to give up immediately, as any hope for successful truthseeking is utterly unjustified with such an approach.
Conflating epistemics with considerations like this is deadly to epistemics. If we’re going to approach epistemic rationality in this fashion, then we ought to give up immediately, as any hope for successful truthseeking is utterly unjustified with such an approach.