Ordinary Banana

Why say 'epistemic status' when you can just say 'confidence level'? Using plain English is morally laudable, by which I mean 'good'.

'Confidence level' is a bayesian phrase, and not everyone is bayesian or wants to commit themselves to bayesianism when they make a claim about a belief's epistemic status.

Worse, it's a NHST phrase. (Bayesians don't have confidence intervals, they have credibility intervals.) And those only apply to specific quantitative parameters or variables, and don't really apply to the gestalt of overall essays or theories, and would be misleading to say so.

Confidence level =/= confidence interval. I mean it in the ordinary English sense of the term, e.g. Confidence level: I spent a whole week looking into this and am pretty sure it's right.