EPISTEMIC DEVALUATION: THE CONFLUENCE OF LLMS, REFLECTIVE JUDGEMENT AND PROFESSIONAL MILITARY EDUCATION

Indian Naval Despatch: Volume 6. No. 3 | by Abhishek Kesari

Published Date: August 2026 | 11 min read | 6 Views

Abstract: This essay examines a critical paradox of the contemporary information environment while access to knowledge has increased manifold, the capacity for reﬂective judgement appears to be diminishing. Drawing on Immanuel Kant’s position on human judgement, it argues that Large Language Models (LLMs), despite their evident utility, may undermine disciplined reasoning, moral courage and contextual interpretation …

nor harmful, but its perceived convenience can easily induce ‘epistemic devaluation’ a gradual erosion of intellectual eﬀort. In the military context particularly, where decisions are often made under a cloud of uncertainty and with incomplete information, this has serious implications for Professional Military Educati

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