Some languages allow or even require suffixes on verbs indicating how you know what you’re stating (a grammatical feature called ‘evidentiality’) - eg ‘I heard that X’, ‘I suppose that X’.
I suspect this is epistemically good for speakers of such languages, forcing them to consider the reasons behind every statement they make. Hence I find myself adding careful qualifications myself, e.g. ‘I suspect’ (as above), ‘I read that’, etc.
Some languages allow or even require suffixes on verbs indicating how you know what you’re stating (a grammatical feature called ‘evidentiality’) - eg ‘I heard that X’, ‘I suppose that X’.
I suspect this is epistemically good for speakers of such languages, forcing them to consider the reasons behind every statement they make. Hence I find myself adding careful qualifications myself, e.g. ‘I suspect’ (as above), ‘I read that’, etc.