Where does doxa collide?

In classical philosophy, doxa is opinion or belief, contrasted with and ranked below episteme, genuine knowledge: it is what seems true to people, possibly correct but unexamined and ungrounded. In Plato's Republic doxa is tied to the shifting world of appearances, while knowledge is tied to what is stable and real, so the philosopher's task is to move from opinion to understanding. The referent is a grade of cognition, assessed by whether a belief is grounded in reasons, and it differs from the sociologist's doxa, which names not a weak kind of belief but the beliefs so taken for granted they are never raised to the level of opinion at all.[1]

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The epistemic standing of a belief relative to grounded knowledge

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Assessed philosophically by whether a belief can be justified with reasons and so raised from opinion to knowledge

In sociology, Bourdieu's doxa is the realm of what is so self-evident within a social world that it goes without saying and is never openly debated: the taken-for-granted assumptions that feel like the natural order rather than one arrangement among others. His Outline of a Theory of Practice places doxa beyond the field of opinion entirely: once something becomes a matter of opinion, open to being argued for or against, it has already left the doxic zone of the simply unquestioned. The referent is the domain of the undiscussed in a social order, revealed only when crisis makes it arguable, and it is a different construct from the philosopher's doxa, which is opinion rather than the absence of it.[2]

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The extent of a social world taken as self-evident and beyond debate

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Inferred from what members treat as self-evident and leave unquestioned, often exposed only when crisis makes it debatable