epistemic agent

The agent in whom a DoxasticState inheres — the believer. Functional and constitutive: one doxastic state is the believing mode of exactly one agent.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:DoxasticState -> gmeow:Agent; functional

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:epistemicAgent from gmeow:DoxasticState to gmeow:Agent when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

Example Snippets

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Belief Revision

@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#> .



# --- Original belief (high credence, unequivocal) -----------------------------
ex:originalBelief a gmeow:DoxasticState ;
    rdfs:label "original belief: the printer is broken"@en ;
    gmeow:epistemicAgent ex:operator ;
    gmeow:doxasticContent ex:propPrinterBroken ;
    gmeow:credence "0.92"^^xsd:decimal ;
    gmeow:doxasticClaim ex:originalClaim .

# --- Revised belief (lower credence, probable) --------------------------------
ex:revisedBelief a gmeow:DoxasticState ;
    rdfs:label "revised belief: printer may be broken"@en ;
    gmeow:epistemicAgent ex:operator ;
    gmeow:doxasticContent ex:propPrinterBroken ;
    gmeow:credence "0.35"^^xsd:decimal ;
    gmeow:doxasticClaim ex:revisedClaim .

Flagship Epistemic Ledger

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



# --- Original credence-weighted belief (operator) --------------------------------
ex:opBeliefOriginal a gmeow:DoxasticState ;
    rdfs:label "original belief: LLM recalled the meeting date correctly"@en ;
    gmeow:epistemicAgent ex:operator ;
    gmeow:doxasticContent ex:propRecall ;
    gmeow:doxasticClaim ex:opClaimOriginal ;
    gmeow:credence "0.85"^^xsd:decimal ;
    gmeow:justifiedBy ex:evidenceSpan1 .

# --- Revised belief after a defeater ---------------------------------------------
ex:opBeliefRevised a gmeow:DoxasticState ;
    rdfs:label "revised belief: LLM probably misremembered the meeting date"@en ;
    gmeow:epistemicAgent ex:operator ;
    gmeow:doxasticContent ex:propRecall ;
    gmeow:doxasticClaim ex:opClaimRevised ;
    gmeow:credence "0.30"^^xsd:decimal .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:DoxasticState, gmeow:Agent

Usage Advice

Use when

Avoid when

How to use

Examples