doubts

• CURIE: gmeow:doubts
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/doubts
• Category: property
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/epistemics

An agent holds a proposition in doubt — a low-credence, unsettled doxastic attitude: weaker than believing, and distinct from settled disbelief (a refuted gmeow:standpointModality on the statement). Range OPEN, like gmeow:believes. Non-functional.

Structure

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

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:doubts 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 low-credence, unsettled leaning against a proposition — weaker than belief and not yet settled disbelief — when the wavering itself is what you want to capture.

Avoid when

• Avoid for settled disbelief (that is a refuted gmeow:standpointModality on the statement, a standpoint's explicit denial, never a factive knowledge verdict) and for full agnostic withholding (use gmeow:suspendsJudgementOn); doubt is a leaning, not a balanced suspension.

How to use

• Point the agent at the proposition or reified statement; if the doubt hardens into denial, model that as a refuted gmeow:standpointModality on a StandpointClaim rather than overloading gmeow:doubts, and let competing attitudes coexist (it is non-functional).

Examples

• ex:alice gmeow:doubts ex:earthIsRound.