🧠 Reconceptualize cognitive dissonance as an epistemic event, exploring its impact on freedom, anxiety, and conformity through a philosophical lens.
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🧠 Reconceptualize cognitive dissonance as an epistemic event, exploring its impact on freedom, anxiety, and conformity through a philosophical lens.
This paper reinterprets cognitive dissonance as structural to epistemic life. Drawing on philosophy, psychology, and fiduciary law, it shows how collapse yields illusory freedom, while fiduciary scaffolds enable bounded freedom, epistemic resilience, and institutional pluralism.
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