Postmonition 

Dreaming Something Happened, After It Happened, Without Knowing It Happened.

Say you had a dream about an earthquake (Randomly), about an hour after there was an actual earthquake, but you didn't know there was one until the next day when you wake up. This would be a Postmonition. You didn't dream something was gonna happen like a premonition.

Postmonition by NyteTerror June 4, 2009

Pooposition 

The serious conversation you bring up to your girlfriend/wife/fling about doing anal.

Debano " Listen. Babe. I got a Pooposition for you."

Beky" I'm listening."

Debano" If you allow us to experiment with back door penetration...I'll go shopping with you more..."

Beky" Alright! But we must use mass amounts of lube!"

Pooposition by Daravouchi December 3, 2013

popposition 

Major head-shaking regarding either soft drinks or small-but-noisy bursts of sound.

Many youngsters get da biggest kick outta firecrackers and bubble-wrap, but their jangled-nerved and tender-eared parents often put up considerable popposition to said alarming audibles and startling staccatos.

popposition by QuacksO April 16, 2024

postvolitional object permanence

Coined by Kimmina. A term describing the moment one grasps that a manufactured object outlives the will that brought it into existence. Adapted from Piaget's developmental concept of object permanence (the understanding that things persist when out of sight), but inverted: here, the object persists not beyond perception, but beyond purpose. Frequently observed in workshops, labs, and homes where 3D prints, prototypes, and other artifacts of past enthusiasm accumulate as silent witnesses to abandoned intentions. Touches on themes from material culture studies, consumption theory, and the sociology of technology: why humans produce more than they need, and what happens to the things left behind.

After a year of printing, his shelves had become a quiet museum of postvolitional object permanence: objects that once felt essential, now just there.

postvolitional object permanence by Pitrade May 15, 2026

Scientific Postpositivism

The dominant philosophy of contemporary science, positioned as a critical refinement of classical positivism. While positivists believed science could achieve certain, objective truth through pure observation, Postpositivism acknowledges that all observation is theory-laden, that absolute certainty is impossible, and that scientific knowledge is fallible and provisional. Yet it maintains that we can still get closer to truth through rigorous methods, peer critique, and the gradual accumulation of evidence. It's positivism that went to therapy, came to terms with its limitations, and decided to keep working anyway.

"My advisor still believes in objective truth but admits every measurement is biased and every theory will eventually be revised. That's Scientific Postpositivism: knowing you'll never be certain, but acting as if getting less wrong matters. It's science with humility, not science with despair."

Scientific Postpositivism by Abzugal February 23, 2026

Epistemological Postpositivism

The epistemological framework that underpins Scientific Postpositivism: the view that knowledge is possible, probable, and progressive, but never certain or final. It rejects both the naive confidence of classical foundationalism and the despair of radical skepticism. We can know things—really know them—but what we know is always subject to revision, always shaped by our methods and perspectives, always fallible. Epistemological Postpositivism is the mature adulthood of knowing: you've been burned by overconfidence, you've seen paradigms shift, but you still get out of bed and claim to know things because some claims are clearly better than others.

"You say we can't know anything for certain, so why bother? Epistemological Postpositivism says: we can't know with absolute certainty, but we can know with enough confidence to act, to build, to heal. Certainty is for cults; probability is for adults."

Epistemological Postpositivism by Abzugal February 23, 2026