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epistemic opacity: a standalone construct

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Philosophy of science

the inability of a human to survey every step of a computational process, such as a simulation, that underwrites a result.

In philosophy of science, epistemic opacity refers to the inability of a human to survey every step of a computational process, such as a simulation, that underwrites a result. This meaning comes from Humphreys (2008) in Synthese.[1]

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Humphreys, P. (2008). The philosophical novelty of computer simulation methods. Synthese, 169(3), 615-626. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-008-9435-2

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