Imposing a context-sensitive reflective condition on assent conflates the epistemic standards appropriate for the novice with those appropriate for the perfected reasoner, collapsing a distinction central to Stoic moral epistemology.
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Reflective condition(a standard for deciding whether someone is justified in believing something)
A requirement that you think carefully and examine your own reasoning before you accept or believe something.
Stoic(describing the epistemological framework)
A school of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy that believed virtue is the highest good and that we should accept what happens with calm reason.
Stoic moral epistemology(the specific framework for understanding knowledge and belief in Stoic ethics)
The Stoic theory about how we gain knowledge and justified beliefs specifically about what is right and wrong, and what counts as good reasoning about ethics.
assent(Epictetan epistemology and action theory)
The cognitive act of accepting a proposition as true, regulated by perceived logical consistency or contradiction with one's existing beliefs.
context-sensitive(Used to describe terms like 'I' and 'left' whose reference shifts with the context of use.)
A term whose semantic value or referent varies depending on features of the context of utterance, such as the identity or orientation of the speaker.