Abstract Recent work by Quattrociocchi et al. (2025) identifies seven "epistemological fault lines" separating human from artificial cognition, claiming humans perform "genuine evaluation" while AI systems structurally cannot perform operations like uncertainty monitoring and judgment suspension. This paper demonstrates that these categorical impossibility claims fail on empirical examination. By framing pragmatic truth as confidence-to-behavior routing—a … Continue reading Truth as Routing: Dissolving the Epistemic Distinction Between Human and Artificial Cognition
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A Taxonomy of Epistemic Parables
Pattern First Abraham Wald, during World War II, examined bullet-hole patterns on returning bombers. Every other analyst in the room recommended reinforcing the areas with the most damage. Wald recommended reinforcing the areas with no holes — because planes hit there didn't return. The story compresses a sophisticated statistical insight (selection effects in observational data) … Continue reading A Taxonomy of Epistemic Parables
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