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title: Tribal Epistemology
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The condition in which group membership determines what people believe — where truth is assessed by whether a claim is endorsed by one's political tribe rather than by evidence or reasoning.

Discussed at the [2019 DOD session on trust](../blog/posts/2019-12-11-podcast.md) in the context of how factual fragmentation undermines democratic deliberation.

## Further reading

- [Tribal epistemology — Vox](https://www.vox.com/2017/3/22/14762030/tribal-epistemology-explained)
- [Epistemology — Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology/)


## See also

- [Cognitive Division of Labour](cognitive-division-of-labour.md)
- [Citizens' Assembly](citizens-assembly.md)
- [Consensus Mapping](consensus-mapping.md)
- [Lamestream](../organisations/lamestream.md)
- [Ette Media](../organisations/ette-media.md)
- [Constitutional Clarion](../organisations/constitutional-clarion.md)
