I think you’re looking for some particular kind of public obeisance that I don’t bother to perform internally because I’d consider it a wasted motion. If I’m lost in a forest I don’t bother going around loudly talking about how I need a forest theory that makes detailed advance experimental predictions in controlled experiments, but, alas, I don’t have one, so now I should be very humble. I try to figure out which way is north.
Well, if it were me, it would be useful to remind myself of the epistemic status of my conclusions, else I might be tempted to think that I have more knowledge than I do.
I make a point when someone asks me a question, and I don’t know the answer, to say “well, the first answer is, ‘I don’t know’” before going on to try to make informed guesses. I don’t want to lose sight of the fact that my guesses are guesses.
Well, if it were me, it would be useful to remind myself of the epistemic status of my conclusions, else I might be tempted to think that I have more knowledge than I do.
I make a point when someone asks me a question, and I don’t know the answer, to say “well, the first answer is, ‘I don’t know’” before going on to try to make informed guesses. I don’t want to lose sight of the fact that my guesses are guesses.