epistemic self-trust

• CURIE: gmeow:epistemicSelfTrust
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/epistemicSelfTrust
• Category: property
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/metacognition
• Box roles: RBox role (What is this?)

The reliability an agent accords to one of its OWN epistemic faculties or sources — feeling-of-knowing: how far the agent trusts its own memory, perception, or reasoning on a matter. The flat 80% surface (an agent trusts its own faculty / source); the RANGE is left open (the trusted faculty, source, or own-state), documented in prose. NOT functional: an agent trusts different faculties to different degrees. A metacognitive form of trust, second-order because its object is the agent's own epistemic apparatus rather than an external trustee.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:Agent -> ?

Practical Pattern

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

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Agent

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to record an agent's reliance on its own epistemic faculty or source — feeling-of-knowing, the trust an agent places in its own memory, perception, or reasoning — the cheap surface a trustworthy memory reads when deciding how far to lean on a recalled belief.

Avoid when

• Avoid using it for trust in an EXTERNAL agent or source (that is the trust slice's gmeow:TrustAssertion directly), avoid re-minting trust machinery (reuse gmeow:trustLevel by reference for the graded form), and avoid asserting an rdfs:range; the trusted-faculty surface stays open.

How to use

• Assert gmeow:epistemicSelfTrust from the agent to its own faculty / source for the flat case; for the graded form, mint a gmeow:StandpointClaim (vantage = the agent, observedFeature = the agent's own faculty) carrying gmeow:trustLevel from the trust slice, rather than minting a new degree term.

Scope notes

• Reuse the trust slice, do not re-mint it (Principle 6): the rich, graded form of self-trust is a gmeow:StandpointClaim whose gmeow:vantage is the agent and whose gmeow:observedFeature is the agent's own faculty / source, carrying gmeow:trustLevel (trust slice) — self-trust is trust-about-oneself, the gmeow:trustor and gmeow:trustee coinciding. This property is the cheap surface; promote to the standpoint-claim idiom when the degree, scale, or vantage of self-trust is itself the fact. The bridge to the trust slice is documented routing, asserting no triples into it.

Examples

• ex:lillith gmeow:epistemicSelfTrust ex:lillithEpisodicMemory.