Yet so many other factors also influence epistemic convictions that purely national styles may be relatively rare.
Suppose two people disagree about an important issue, and the disagreement is not due to one party's epistemic negligence or obliviousness to relevant evidence.
The existence of such ties makes the concepts and their manipulations understood, thereby licensing their epistemic and other uses.
But few have directly considered whether such differences involve different ways of doing science: are there epistemic styles for science?
Thus, the two epistemic styles emphasized different goals, processes of investigation, and standards of evidence.
The person has perhaps closed her spiritual eyes, and thus is in an inferior epistemic position.
More indirectly, these two stylistic dimensions mark different epistemic relations to the discourse, emphasizing and privileging different kinds of information.
This does not mean that the scientific population will immediately choose that value as the minimum epistemic value for a theory to be acceptable.
