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  • And it is unclear how to establish that I am rational without using the accuracy of my self-attributions, or how to establish that I™m an accurate self-attributor without using the fact of my rationality.

    Self-Knowledge Gertler, Brie 2008

  • Like belief states, other's perceptual states are opaque, and require the attributor to make a distinction between oneself and another.

    Animal Cognition Andrews, Kristin 2008

  • Companies like attributor.com are already being used, and I suspect ACAP is just the first of many efforts at finding a technological means of controlling content reuse.

    Stewardship v. ownership of our news, money, and society « BuzzMachine 2008

  • The technology to do this is out there — sites like attributor.com are able to track content across the Web, and ideas like creative commons can help content producers define how their content can be reused.

    The start of reverse syndication (and end of the AP?) « BuzzMachine 2008

  • When asked whether a specified belief is justified or unjustified, an attributor mentally considers how the subject's belief was formed and tries to match the process of its formation to one or more of the virtues or vices on his mental list.

    Reliabilism Goldman, Alvin 2008

  • On Heller's view (1995), just how reliable a belief-forming process must be for an attribution of knowledge to the subject to be correct depends upon context, in the attributor sense introduced above.

    Epistemic Contextualism Rysiew, Patrick 2007

  • (Hence this view's sometimes being referred to as ˜attributor contextualism™.)

    Epistemic Contextualism Rysiew, Patrick 2007

  • Once again, however, there is a strong degree of consensus among the theories under discussion that context itself is to be understood in terms of such things as the interests, purposes, expectations, and so forth, of the knowledge attributor.

    Epistemic Contextualism Rysiew, Patrick 2007

  • Someone should remind this ineffectual propagandist that attributing quotes places the onus upon the attributor to prove their accuracy.

    Dawg's Blawg 2005

  • Someone should remind this ineffectual propagandist that attributing quotes places the onus upon the attributor to prove their accuracy.

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

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