Awareness growth—coming to entertain propositions of which one was previously unaware—is a crucial aspect of epistemic thriving. And yet, it is widely believed that orthodox Bayesianism cannot accommodate this phenomenon since that would require employing supposedly defective catchall propositions. Orthodox Bayesianism, it is concluded, must be amended. In this article, I show that this argument fails and that, on the contrary, the orthodox version of Bayesianism is particularly well suited to accommodate awareness growth. For it entails what I call the refinement view, which allows us to capture that awareness growth consists in the increase of one’s capacity of discernment.

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意识增长的本质


意识的增长——接受人们以前没有意识到的命题——是认知繁荣的一个重要方面。然而，人们普遍认为正统贝叶斯主义无法适应这种现象，因为这需要采用据称有缺陷的包罗万象的命题。结论是，必须修正正统贝叶斯主义。在这篇文章中，我表明这个论点是失败的，相反，贝叶斯主义的正统版本特别适合适应意识的增长。因为它包含了我所说的精炼观点，它使我们能够捕捉到意识的增长在于一个人辨别能力的增强。