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

Pinned version v0.1 (entry THEORY-EPISTEMIC-DEPENDENCE--v0.1) — this page never floats to newer evidence.

This pinned version is also the current version.

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.