You are right, but for a slightly different reason. I had thought I meant a meaning analogous quoted in Epistemic Viciousness… Except when I actually reread the essay, this is not what I wanted to imply:
This essay is about epistemic viciousness in the martial arts, and this story illustrates just that. Though the word ‘viciousness’ normally suggests deliberate cruelty and violence, I will be using it here with the more old-fashioned meaning, possessing of vices.
(For some reason, I had remembered “epistemic viciousness” as “epistemic fierceness.”)
I’ve currently edited to “fierceness.” I’ll keep an eye out for a yet better word.
I don’t think “viciousness” is the word you want to use here.
You are right, but for a slightly different reason. I had thought I meant a meaning analogous quoted in Epistemic Viciousness… Except when I actually reread the essay, this is not what I wanted to imply:
(For some reason, I had remembered “epistemic viciousness” as “epistemic fierceness.”)
I’ve currently edited to “fierceness.” I’ll keep an eye out for a yet better word.