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    A fully determined doxastic state about Blue—even one yie... — Carmelics
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    Supports→An agent who is ignorant about the color of a marble is thereby rendered very opinionated about whether the color is Blue.

    A fully determined doxastic state about Blue—even one yielding low credence—constitutes being opinionated rather than genuinely ignorant, vindicating the claim that ignorance paradoxically generates strong opinions.

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    Key Terms

    Genuinely ignorant(the opposite state from being opinionated)
    Truly not knowing anything about a topic—having no formed belief or opinion at all, rather than having a weak one.
    credence(Bayesian epistemology)
    A subjective degree of belief, used in Bayesian epistemology to represent how strongly an agent believes a proposition.
    doxastic state(as used in epistemology)
    A mental condition involving what you believe; basically, what's going on in your mind when you hold a belief.
    epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
    A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
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    In this context, it means having specific, firm beliefs or positions about something rather than being neutral or undecided.
    paradoxically(as used in logic and reasoning)
    In a way that seems to contradict itself or leads to an unexpected, contradictory result.

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