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epistemic diclosure is the practice of disclosing your certainty, conviction, background, and origin knowledge about some information. the majority of the information on my site
is rather casual, links to notes or other sites, however, i've slowly begun to add more essays and personal opinions onto the site. there are also pages where my knowledge is clearly
lacking, or othertimes, where i feel something strongly but feel it is based on substance. the practice of of providing epistemic tags to pages is practiced across a lot wiki's and
memexes. examples:
- [devon zuegel]
- [jake bauer]
- [maggie appleton]
Another approach I like is from a [characters] [xe iaso] who adds the following to many pages:
This article was posted on YYYY-MM-DD. Facts and circumstances may have changed since publication. Please contact me before jumping to conclusions if something seems wrong or unclear.
While a catchall like that does potentially help, I personally felt more drawn to symbols that relate to a combination of epistemic effort and epistemic status. For now, I've only
added the naming to the first stage below. I was also inspired by [lizbeth poirier]'s sigil related work for the simple designs below.
the _seedling_ represents undeveloped thoughts, snippets, collections of notes or links. generally used for pages that are just getting started, that may be removed at any time, and are more or less still just stubs for information to gather. in general i mean to show that i generaly am either just starting to collate information, or am less sure of the information itself. though it could be either. seedling pages generally will not be well-linked yet, and may not contribute meaningfully to development of notes across the memex. it could also represent a nascent project, or the beginning idea of a project.
the sapling is the next stage in development of the note. the sapling on some level represents _duality_, in some pages where i have _at least_ considered the inverse, the opposite, the alternative. by duality i don't mean that the note represents, or essential is a duality, but it at least exists past the level of seedling. the other part of the duality is internal dialogues, or from conversations with others, or reading or researching others' ideas on the topic. for projects, a sapling is in progress, not finished, or otherwise still feels incomplete on some level. it may also be "finished" but lacking something still.
one of the following:
- a persistent concept, idea, belief, or interest
- a finished project
- something i've spent a non trivial amount of time on, in one way or another
- something that is less likely to be removed from the memex
- something that is more intrinsically linked to other pages in the link
Gemini Links:
Web Links:
https://metasyn.pw/resources/img/seedling_white.png
