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title: Epistemic State
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date: 2011-09-03
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techne: :done
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episteme: :believed
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non_cognitive: true
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So, what's with these markers of [epistemic][Epistemology] states everywhere?
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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.
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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.
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Here's a short explanation what each epistemic state roughly means:
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- **believed** - I pretty much endorse it as-written
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- **semi-believed** - most of it is fine, but there are some gaps or minor problems; maybe needs a rewrite or two
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- **not believed** - just wrong; I changed my mind since I wrote it
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- **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.
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- **speculation** - some random idea that I wanted to write more about so I could better understand it; typically not believed
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- **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)
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- **log** - log entries that simply describe what happened without any judgment or reflection
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