I think they do want to allow speculative, less ‘we know for sure’ claims that are “epistemically signposted” and reasoning transparent. So to some extent that connotation for the asterisk is not so far off.
But I agree that I have heard of “that home run record comes with an asterisk”. But somewhat doubtful this will come to mind in this context.
I think they do want to allow speculative, less ‘we know for sure’ claims that are “epistemically signposted” and reasoning transparent. So to some extent that connotation for the asterisk is not so far off.
But I agree that I have heard of “that home run record comes with an asterisk”. But somewhat doubtful this will come to mind in this context.