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(see also 'commitment') the final of four levels in Deanna Kuhn's model of the development of epistemological understanding
"A young person who moves beyond multiplism comes to appreciate that even if there cannot be absolute certainty, it is still possible to critically evaluate ideas and make choices between alternatives … This allows the positing of provisional knowledge that is seen as the best currently available way of making sense of some aspect of [experience] – and evaluating how robust and refined it seems to be." (Taber, 2020)
