Even if artifact quality constrains inferences, this doesn't establish which artisan-attributes are constrained—power, knowledge, and benevolence may warrant different inference rules.
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benevolence(British tradition in ethics; Murdoch rejects this characterization as inadequate)
Being motivated to help others, taken in the British ethical tradition to be sufficient for bringing about what is good for the other
inference rules(As used in the DIRT system by Lin and Pantel)
Rules expressing approximate equivalence between relational phrases, such as 'X finds a solution to Y ≈ X solves Y', derived statistically from text corpora.
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.