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epistemology
15 items with this tag.
Oct 12, 2026
The storytelling problem and the limits of verbal explanation
idea
psychology
narrative
learning
epistemology
Oct 12, 2026
The unconscious is powerful but fallible
idea
psychology
intuition
epistemology
Oct 12, 2026
Know the bell curve intimately enough to know where it fails
idea
statistics
epistemology
reasoning
Oct 12, 2026
Predicting a discovery means almost having made it
idea
epistemology
uncertainty
Oct 12, 2026
Start from the exceptional and treat the ordinary as subordinate
idea
statistics
epistemology
uncertainty
Oct 12, 2026
Survival is not evidence of a cause
idea
epistemology
reasoning
probability
Oct 12, 2026
The antilibrary makes unread books more valuable than read ones
idea
epistemology
knowledge
Oct 12, 2026
The cosmetic and the Platonic leave the unseen with no advocate
idea
epistemology
psychology
uncertainty
Oct 12, 2026
The law of iterated expectations makes the future unforecastable
idea
epistemology
uncertainty
probability
Oct 12, 2026
The mind's blind spots are one disease seen from five rooms
idea
epistemology
psychology
Oct 12, 2026
We simplify because randomness will not fit in our heads
idea
epistemology
psychology
narrative
Oct 12, 2026
Better thinking requires a wide variety of accurate mental models
idea
mental-models
epistemology
Oct 12, 2026
Know the edges of your circle of competence
idea
mental-models
epistemology
decision-making
Oct 12, 2026
The map is not the territory
idea
mental-models
epistemology
Oct 12, 2026
The bell curve's ubiquity is in our minds, not the world
idea
statistics
epistemology