{
  "id": "doubt.epistemic",
  "term": "doubt",
  "sense": "epistemic",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "reflection",
  "domain": "epistemic",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "a model reporting its own range as wide, which is why it tracks accuracy rather than opposing it.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "model.representation",
      "self-model.reflexive",
      "window.range",
      "wide.spatial",
      "report.information",
      "track.path",
      "rather.comparative",
      "range.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "A self-modeling representation communicates the span of its own uncertainty window by reporting it as broad, leading to behavior that tracks incoming information instead of resisting it.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "self-attributed uncertainty",
      "accuracy-tracking tendency",
      "reflexive range reporting"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Hubble Space Telescope's gyroscope failures led to degraded pointing accuracy, requiring repeated servicing missions to restore function.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2008, the Federal Reserve began tracking real-time credit default swaps as uncertainty spiked during Lehman Brothers' collapse.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The human visual cortex resolves ambiguous images like the Necker cube by cycling between interpretations every few seconds.",
      "domain": "neuroscience"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "doubt",
    "doubts"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/we-already-had-the-words.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive components to align record with correct definition. Definition remains factually accurate and concise."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-doubt.epistemic"
}