What Makes Something Surprising?
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چکیده
Surprises are important in our everyday lives as well scientific and philosophical theorizing—in psychology, information theory, cognitive-neuroscience, philosophy of science, confirmation theory. Nevertheless, there is no satisfactory theory what makes something surprising. It has long been acknowledged that not everything unexpected The reader had reason to expect will be exactly 190 words this abstract yet nothing surprising about fact. We offer a novel explains when why an fact distinguish between descriptive normative notions surprising; clarify the sense which facts unexpected; and, finally, develop defend significance account surprise, according agent if extent it both significant agent. Since can various ways—personal, moral, epistemic, aesthetic—surprise merely or primarily epistemic. Fitting surprise reflects more than person’s view is; significant.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0031-8205', '1933-1592']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12820