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One label might not work so well for all of us, but one characteristic that we seem to prize is a quantitative approach to epistemology: not requiring airtight philosophical proofs and disproofs if strong evidence is in supply.
One suggestion is to call ourselves "quantitative reasoners", or something pithy along those lines.