subdoxastic

English

Etymology

sub- +‎ doxastic

Adjective

subdoxastic (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to what underlies the formation of beliefs or opinions.
   • 2008 January 30, Lisa Warenski, “Naturalism, fallibilism, and the a priori”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 3:

     And to the extent we understand what an empirical justification is, we can contrast it with a non-empirical justification or a justification that is constituted by the operations of reason (or subdoxastic reasoning processes) upon previously-acquired concepts.

   • 2008 September 12, Hamid Vahid, “Experience and the Space of Reasons: The Problem of Non-Doxastic Justification”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3:

     But this does not square well with Reynolds' explanation of the way we arrive at our justified beliefs in terms of sub-skills that involve rule-governed subdoxastic processes and states whose contents are, by definition, not phenomenologically salient.