Street Epistemology - Practice

[RoadRunner79]

I don’t understand, it’s not like I am saying that there is no line to be drawn.  Where do you think that there is an issue.

I'm confused with your replies but maybe it's just me. Are you saying that there is a line that you would draw between low to high epistemic burden but that line would vary between you and me?

I think it is the low and high epistemic burden that is confusing you, and I don't know where you are getting that from in my view.    

Take your money example.... I don't believe there is a lower and higher sliding scale.  I think that there is a reasonable requirement to believe that you have X number of dollars.  If everything else is equal (no reason to doubt), I don't think that it matters what X is.  Perhaps it is the variance, that I was talking about, that is confusing though.  With this, I'm just saying, that I think there is some room for disagreement on what exactly the standard of measure should be (we can forget this for now, if it helps).  So take the other example, the claim that I have X living in my garage.  If X is a cat, then you might be more willing to make assumptions and accept my claim.  However you really have little more epistemic reason to do so.  The question I believe is what is required to know, that a claim of X is living in my garage.  And when dealing with epistemology, I don't' think you are just talking about simply believing, but justified belief or knowing.  And there is some confusion there.