Entry 1094 — “Validapistemology”
Whee, I’m sort back. All I have is a coinage I came up with this morning, “validapistemology.” A brutally pretentious coinage, perhaps, but necessary–for me, if no one else. It means “the study what knowledge is true, what not true, and why,” and is pronounced vaah LIH duh PIHS tuh MAH luh jee. I figured there was already a word for this but the Internet couldn’t find me one. “Epistemology” seems to me simply the neutral study of knowledge–what we know whether true or not. And logic seems to me only a record of how to determine whether something is logical or not, but not really if something is true. That was enough for me to make up yet another preposteorus word. Who knows if even I will ever use it.
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