doxastic standpoint claim

A StandpointClaim that explicitly reports a held DoxasticState — the reified, vantage-indexed claim that an agent is in a particular believing mode toward a proposition. It carries the qualitative claimModality of the belief and links to the underlying DoxasticState via gmeow:claimOfBelief, so the holding can be justified or defeated in a sibling child (Principles 9, 15).

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:StandpointClaim

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:DoxasticStandpointClaim as a specialized kind of gmeow:StandpointClaim. Add statement metadata or a standpoint when the assertion needs provenance, confidence, or vantage.

Example Snippets

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Justification And Defeat

@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/epistemics/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .



ex:adaJustifiedClaim a gmeow:DoxasticStandpointClaim ;
    rdfs:label "Ada's justified standpoint claim that it is noon"@en ;
    gmeow:vantage ex:ada ;
    gmeow:observedFeature ex:timeNoon ;
    gmeow:claimModality gmeow:unequivocal ;
    gmeow:observationMethod gmeow:methodInstrumentalReading ;
    gmeow:claimOfBelief ex:adaJustifiedBelief .

ex:adaGettierClaim a gmeow:DoxasticStandpointClaim ;
    rdfs:label "Ada's Gettier-defeated standpoint claim that it is noon"@en ;
    gmeow:vantage ex:ada ;
    gmeow:observedFeature ex:timeNoon ;
    gmeow:claimModality gmeow:unequivocal ;
    gmeow:observationMethod gmeow:methodInstrumentalReading ;
    gmeow:claimOfBelief ex:adaGettierBelief .

Blame Deflection

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: deception is held ≠ projected. A spokesperson
# privately BELIEVES an internal misconfiguration caused an outage, but publicly
# PROJECTS that a third-party vendor did. The lie is a gmeow:Event linking the
# two DoxasticStandpointClaims: gmeow:heldStandpoint (the believed claim) and
# gmeow:projectedStandpoint (the asserted-but-disbelieved one). Falsehood is not
# an isFalse boolean — it is the projected claim carrying gmeow:claimVeridicality
# gmeow:veridicalityUntrue. Nothing here needs a "deception class": ordinary
# claims, an event type, and the held/projected gap do all the work.
#
# Re-grounded for both standpoints are reified as gmeow:DoxasticState
# instances and reported by gmeow:DoxasticStandpointClaim instances via
# gmeow:claimOfBelief. The held belief has high credence; the projected belief has
# low credence — the spokesperson publicly avows the vendor-caused proposition
# while actually disbelieving it. The deception is the divergence between the
# high-credence held state and the low-credence projected state.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/deception/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

# --- What the spokesperson privately HOLDS: the internal engineer caused it.
ex:heldClaim a gmeow:DoxasticStandpointClaim ;
    gmeow:vantage ex:spokesperson ;
    gmeow:observedFeature ex:internalCauseProposition ;
    gmeow:claimOfBelief ex:spokespersonHeldBelief ;
    gmeow:claimModality gmeow:unequivocal ;
    gmeow:observationMethod gmeow:methodExpertJudgement .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:StandpointClaim

Usage Advice

Use when

Avoid when

How to use

Examples