epistemic supervenience

Epistemic supervenience refers to the idea that all of our knowledge, beliefs, and justified beliefs about a subject are determined by the underlying physical facts. In other words, any two situations that are identical in terms of their physical properties must also be identical in terms of the knowledge we have or can have about them. It asserts that there can be no difference in knowledge without a corresponding difference in the physical facts.

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