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06-28-2009, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Tsuwabuki View Post
I want numbers. I want studies. I want research literature. When dealing with policy changes what we "know" at our common epistemic level is no longer tolerable, as we have entered a higher epistemic level requiring much stricter standards of evidence for any of our "knowledge" to be epistemically justifiable, and therefore defendable.
"Common sense" is not good enough in higher epistemic contexts, such as national political, legal, or economic policy decision making processes.

This is essentially what I said above.
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