Epistemic Humility
Acceptance that one may err and others may be right — tier honesty without performative certainty
Epistemic humility is the stance that certainty is rare — I may be wrong, others may be right, and the record should show strength of claim honestly rather than performing infallibility.
Canonical value entry: Epistemic Humility (adopted value).
In this corpus, humility is not weak leadership. It is what Every Statement Has a Tier encodes: tracking tier is “commitment to truth made in full humility — an admission that most of what we hold is not certain.”
Humility does not cancel commitment at the commitment boundary. It requires honest tier, visible evidence, and — after bind — contestability so errors can be corrected forward without punishing challengers.
Violations: Confident deck performance, tier inflation, forced alignment cultures that treat dissent as toxicity.
Corpus stance
A1 — adopted on this site: Public theme alongside Truth, Coherence, and Accountability.