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title: Epistemic State
date: 2011-09-03
techne: :done
episteme: :believed
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So, what's with these markers of [epistemic][Epistemology] states everywhere?

They signal my attitude towards the content. I wanted a way to show whether I
still believe something I have written or not. Or only partially, or never at
all. I didn't want to throw away old texts just because I changed my mind, but I
also couldn't let them sit around without an annotation or someone might think I
still endorsed them.

I'm not happy just going around like RAW, claiming I'm agnostic about
everything. And taking care to notice when you change your mind is very
valuable. Hence the markers.

Here's a short explanation what each epistemic state roughly means:

- **believed** - I pretty much endorse it as-written
- **semi-believed** - most of it is fine, but there are some gaps or minor problems; maybe needs a rewrite or two
- **not believed** - just wrong; I changed my mind since I wrote it
- **fiction** - It's complicated. Generally speaking, *some*  aspects of it I do believe. Sometimes it represents a marginalized aspect of me. Some days I just don't want to care about making my reasoning clear; I just want to *write* something. Or maybe I felt like trolling. Regardless, don't base your world-view on fiction, please. Fiction is treason.
- **speculation** - some random idea that I wanted to write more about so I could better understand it; typically not believed
- **emotional** - some cluster of ideas that got itself entangled with a complex emotional state, and I needed to externalize it to even look at it; in no way endorsed, but occasionally necessary (similar to fiction)
- **log** - log entries that simply describe what happened without any judgment or reflection
* added explanation of epistemic states * added basic techne/episteme to categories * port categorie template to erb 2011-09-04 14:30:09 +02:00			`---`
			`title: Epistemic State`
			`date: 2011-09-03`
* rss feed * changelog * basic sanity check for episteme headers * google analytics * episteme header 2011-09-04 19:22:08 +02:00			`techne: :done`
* added explanation of epistemic states * added basic techne/episteme to categories * port categorie template to erb 2011-09-04 14:30:09 +02:00			`episteme: :believed`
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			`So, what's with these markers of [epistemic][Epistemology] states everywhere?`

			`They signal my attitude towards the content. I wanted a way to show whether I`
			`still believe something I have written or not. Or only partially, or never at`
basic port of content, some categories, daily log done 2012-04-12 19:01:00 +02:00			`all. I didn't want to throw away old texts just because I changed my mind, but I`
* added explanation of epistemic states * added basic techne/episteme to categories * port categorie template to erb 2011-09-04 14:30:09 +02:00			`also couldn't let them sit around without an annotation or someone might think I`
			`still endorsed them.`

			`I'm not happy just going around like RAW, claiming I'm agnostic about`
			`everything. And taking care to notice when you change your mind is very`
			`valuable. Hence the markers.`

basic port of content, some categories, daily log done 2012-04-12 19:01:00 +02:00			`Here's a short explanation what each epistemic state roughly means:`
* added explanation of epistemic states * added basic techne/episteme to categories * port categorie template to erb 2011-09-04 14:30:09 +02:00
basic port of content, some categories, daily log done 2012-04-12 19:01:00 +02:00			`- believed - I pretty much endorse it as-written`
			`- semi-believed - most of it is fine, but there are some gaps or minor problems; maybe needs a rewrite or two`
			`- not believed - just wrong; I changed my mind since I wrote it`
			`- fiction - It's complicated. Generally speaking, some aspects of it I do believe. Sometimes it represents a marginalized aspect of me. Some days I just don't want to care about making my reasoning clear; I just want to write something. Or maybe I felt like trolling. Regardless, don't base your world-view on fiction, please. Fiction is treason.`
			`- speculation - some random idea that I wanted to write more about so I could better understand it; typically not believed`
			`- emotional - some cluster of ideas that got itself entangled with a complex emotional state, and I needed to externalize it to even look at it; in no way endorsed, but occasionally necessary (similar to fiction)`
			`- log - log entries that simply describe what happened without any judgment or reflection`