{"id":443,"date":"2014-08-05T12:53:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T12:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/?p=443"},"modified":"2014-08-05T13:00:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T13:00:42","slug":"%d0%b0leksandra-traykova-epistemology-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"\u0410leksandra Traykova &#8211; Epistemology of Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Logo-for-English.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-451 size-full\" title=\"\u0410leksandra Traykova - Epistemology of Silence  \" src=\"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Logo-for-English.png\" alt=\"\u0410leksandra Traykova - Epistemology of Silence  \" width=\"200\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a>Abstract<\/strong>: Sometimes a subject may form beliefs based on the silence of a trusted source. This source might be either the subject itself, or another source he\/she finds trustworthy in a certain domain. The main idea of the paper \u201cEpistemology of Silence\u201d written by Sanford Goldberg, from an epistemic point of view, is that both cases have similar significance. But how can a belief, based on the silence of a trusted source, be epistemically justified? What does it take for the process of silence-based beliefs to be reliable? What are the conditions for doxastic justification of silence-supported beliefs? These and many others interesting questions find their answers in the paper \u201cEpistemology of Silence\u201d. Here I will try to summarize the answers and to outline the most important ideas in Sanford Goldberg\u2019s paper, and then to present three ideas I had while I was reading the paper for the first time. Not all of them are so closely related to the Goldberg\u2019s text, which is why I chose to mention them after the main part of my assignment. My essay will consist of eight sections devoted to a brief outline of the main ideas in the paper \u201cEpistemology of Silence\u201d, plus one last section, divided into three subsections, which will present some of my thoughts inspired by Sanford Goldberg\u2019s text.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Keywords<\/strong>: Goldberg, Patterson, Goldman, epistemology, silence-based belief, source, knowledge, coverage-reliability, information, truth-likeliness, memory preservation, doxastic justification, \u201cstrategy of indirection\u201d, Galilei, information transmission, science, publicity<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rhetoric and Communications E-journal, Issue 3, March 2012, \u00a0http:\/\/rhetoric.bg\/, ISSN 1314-4464<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"AleksandraTraykova \u2013 Epistemology of Silence\" href=\"http:\/\/rhetoric.bg\/a-traykova-epistemology-of-silence\">Read the original of the article (in English)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: Sometimes a subject may form beliefs based on the silence of a trusted source. This source might be either the subject itself, or another source he\/she finds trustworthy in a certain domain. The main idea of the paper \u201cEpistemology of Silence\u201d written by Sanford Goldberg, from an epistemic point of view, is that both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-march-2012-issue-3"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/journal.rhetoric.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}