This phrase showed up in a dream: “epistemic data.” I have invented two possible meanings.
One: that which we know. Example: The alphabet.
Two: that which may lead to knowledge. In other words, a clue. Examples: Ketchup splattered on the wall, a broken plate on the floor.
Though we can already guess who threw the plate.
More words from dreams
Alecry : Fequid : Misinflame : Skeptiphobia : Winching
[A Google search reveals that “epistemic data” has currency outside the dream world. I’m sticking with homemade definitions.]
Monday, February 19, 2024
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Funnily enough the first thing that came to mind when I read this was that it might have been a covid reference - epidemic and pandemic spring to mind from epistemic. But that's probably my subconscious rather than yours!
I hadn’t thought of that, but it could be my subconscious as well as yours — after dodging Covid for almost four years, I’m recovering from it right now. (With help from Paxlovid.) I thought this phrase might have something to do with watching Columbo and thinking about how clues get planted via close-ups of objects. But now I recall unpacking the enormous page packaged with the meds and trying to make sense of all the science on it.
Thanks for that interpretation!
Epistemic data, epistemic data, epistemic data.
😊
PS. I read the first comments after I’d already posted mine – – I’m sorry to see you have Covid! Weirdly I haven’t gotten it yet – – perhaps at my new job where I’ll be exposed to all new germ carriers (that is, students).
I hope you are recovering well!
That would be a good “over and over.” I guess it came too late, or too early.
Yes, Elaine and I (yeah, she too) are recovering well. She tested positive a few days before me. We each got a prescription for Paxlovid right away. It’s hugely helpful, though it has its side-effects. The one I most notice is that it makes coffee taste like garbage. I mean that just about literally.
So for a while, it’s going to be tea all the time.
Feel better soon! Elaine too.
Thanks, Joe.
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