Concept: EPISTEMIC DEPENDENCE

Concept ID THEORY-EPISTEMIC-DEPENDENCE, version v0.1. Last substantive review: not stated by the source artifact.

Orientation — SocioLens INTERPRETATION

INTERPRETATION · SOCIOLENS INTERPRETATION

Epistemic dependence concerns conditions in which knowers reasonably or unavoidably rely on others, institutions or instruments for knowledge they cannot independently reproduce.

Version

Current version v0.1, resolved through the explicit current pointer CONCEPT--THEORY-EPISTEMIC-DEPENDENCE.

Versions:v0.1 · current

Senses (3)

S1 — NORMATIVE_SOCIAL_EPISTEMOLOGICAL

normative/social-epistemological dependence on expert testimony or cognitive labour. SOCIOLENS INTERPRETATION

Source basis: John Hardwig, “Epistemic Dependence,” The Journal of Philosophy 82(7), 1985 (PRIMARY-TEXT BASIS)

S2 — BEHAVIOURAL_INTERMEDIARY

behavioural dependence/trust in an information or AI intermediary. SOCIOLENS INTERPRETATION

S3 — institutional dependence on proprietary models/infrastructure.

institutional dependence on proprietary models/infrastructure. SOCIOLENS INTERPRETATION

Analytic roles (optional)

Controlled roles: none stated with v1.1 tokens.

As printed by the source artifact (verbatim, not normalized): normative/epistemological; explanatory; institutional.

Primary-text and secondary Source relations

PRIMARY-TEXT BASIS PRIMARY_ARTICULATION: John Hardwig, “Epistemic Dependence,” The Journal of Philosophy 82(7), 1985 — Registry label “PRIMARY_ARTICULATION”

Prose modules (prose is a canonical rendering mode)

Senses

SOCIOLENS INTERPRETATION

S1 — normative/social-epistemological dependence on expert testimony or cognitive labour. S2 — behavioural dependence/trust in an information or AI intermediary. S3 — institutional dependence on proprietary models/infrastructure.

Analytic roles

SOCIOLENS INTERPRETATION

normative/epistemological; explanatory; institutional.

Primary-text relation

SOCIOLENS INTERPRETATION

Hardwig for S1.

Living Debate links

SOCIOLENS INTERPRETATION

LD-07. LD-10. LD-11.

Claim relation example

SOCIOLENS INTERPRETATION

LD-10 trust/citation evidence can SUPPORT_INTERPRETATION of a behavioural S2 claim. The same evidence may only BEARS_ON_PRESUPPOSITION for S1. It cannot silently become evidence that Hardwig's normative account is “proven”.

Prose must carry

SOCIOLENS INTERPRETATION

rationality conditions; authority; trust; verification limits; differences among testimony, instruments and proprietary infrastructure.

Failure prevented

SOCIOLENS INTERPRETATION

one label hiding different normative, behavioural and institutional senses.

Living Debate relations

Claim relations

LD10-HQ-C20--v1.0 BEARS_ON_PRESUPPOSITION S1 — NORMATIVE_SOCIAL_EPISTEMOLOGICAL — Non-evidential relation (not support). Inherited status: PUBLICATION:ELIGIBLE; PUBLICATION_QUALIFIER:PREPRINT. Does not license: Field reliance levels or factual reliability from citations
LD10-HQ-C20--v1.0 SUPPORTS_INTERPRETATION S2 — BEHAVIOURAL_INTERMEDIARY — Active theory relation. Inherited status: PUBLICATION:ELIGIBLE; PUBLICATION_QUALIFIER:PREPRINT. Does not license: Field reliance levels or factual reliability from citations

Research-of-record provenance

Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 76668968043cd963b11b7df5cfd19e6e65932d8a65857be6e90eab2c750db6c7.

Frozen Drive-derived inputs

T01 — HQ Concept Prototypes v0.1 (v0.1) — Drive ID 1vz2J-fue4aXXWqbDsrTZwHR-TqDDhQf3RVIXHVbB4ss; revision: NOT_EXPOSED_BY_DRIVE_TEXT_EXPORT; Drive modified 2026-09-26T11:21:58.041Z; block “PROTOTYPE 04 — EPISTEMIC DEPENDENCE” SHA-256 5ca8f5a4101a9ddb9fd448a2c31c114b9eb04c86fe9dee174a54d607eba59a53; SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status “STRUCTURAL PROTOTYPES; NOT PUBLIC CANONICAL THEORY PAGES.”; frozen fixture fixtures/frozen/t01-concept-prototypes-v0.1.
SocioLens — Proof Facet, Scaffold & Theory Fixture Projection v0.4 (v0.4) — Drive ID 1sJXvw6Kj76u6WCdi9C78aY4xcuHAWy10HxdgMhX_Qb0; revision: NOT_EXPOSED_BY_DRIVE_TEXT_EXPORT; Drive modified 2026-09-27T19:04:02.637Z; block “PROJECTION THEORY FIXTURE A. EPISTEMIC DEPENDENCE — SENSE GATING” SHA-256 ace56b250dd8e28a1cd89c5740ee43f4f4dcecf7fedccd52fa8a16536aa5829a; SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status “CURRENT PROOF FACET/SCAFFOLD/THEORY FIXTURE CONTRACT.”; frozen fixture fixtures/frozen/proof-projection-v0.4.
SocioLens — Proof Source Registry v0.4 (v0.4) — Drive ID 1_-GLmj6PfetWDQH2KldMv-61vmSmzdAyyxgZZZCFnbE; revision: NOT_EXPOSED_BY_DRIVE_TEXT_EXPORT; Drive modified 2026-09-27T19:04:00.374Z; block “REGISTRY ENTRY SRC-THEORY-HARDWIG-1985” SHA-256 350fbf7e21bf7b55c5fd76eb67b5159f57eeac77161c743232a022d54ff5b00b; SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status “CURRENT PROOF SOURCE REGISTRY.”; frozen fixture fixtures/frozen/proof-source-registry-v0.4.

Builder decisions (not Drive data)

VERSION = v0.1 — basis: Concept version taken from the frozen T01 — HQ Concept Prototypes artifact version (v0.1).
CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status for "T01 — HQ Concept Prototypes v0.1": "STRUCTURAL PROTOTYPES; NOT PUBLIC CANONICAL THEORY PAGES."
VISIBILITY = PUBLIC — basis: Gate Update 05 §12 (approved): T01 Concept Prototypes render visibly as STRUCTURAL PROTOTYPES / NOT CANONICAL PUBLIC THEORY; Protocol Addendum 01 AP-15/AP-17/AP-23 require rendered Concept pages. Proof-only page carrying the Register status banner.
PROVENANCE_CLASS_RULE = SRC-THEORY-HARDWIG-1985 PRIMARY_ARTICULATION: PRIMARY-TEXT BASIS — basis: Publication System Amendment v1.1 §11 requires one provenance class per load-bearing theory relation. Rule: an explicit Proof Source Registry "Provenance class" value is used verbatim; otherwise a PRIMARY_ARTICULATION or LATER_DEVELOPMENT relation of a Source that holds the Source-level role PRIMARY_THEORY (the primary theoretical text itself) is PRIMARY-TEXT BASIS; any other relation fails closed.
SOURCE_CONCEPT_IDENTIFICATION = SRC-THEORY-HARDWIG-1985 → THEORY-EPISTEMIC-DEPENDENCE — basis: Builder identification: Proof Source Registry v0.3 prints "Concept: Epistemic dependence" for SRC-THEORY-HARDWIG-1985; T01 Concept Prototypes PROTOTYPE 04 (THEORY-EPISTEMIC-DEPENDENCE) "Primary-text relation: Hardwig for S1", and Projection v0.3 §4A names SRC-THEORY-HARDWIG-1985 as primary source of THEORY-EPISTEMIC-DEPENDENCE S1.