Epista

A style of novel made into episodic chapters released in chronological order, typically aimed at young adults and adults.

Have you caught up with all the chapters in this Epista yet?

Epista by PoyoDeFroyo January 13, 2025

Epistemic Status 

Culture of origin: lesswrong-adjacent blogging communities

The epistemic status is a short disclaimer at the top of a post that explains how confident the author is in the contents of the post, how much reputation the author is willing to stake on it, what sorts of tests the thesis has passed.

It should give a reader a sense of how seriously they should take the post.

It had "Epistemic Status: Wild off-the-cuff speculation" so I didn't bother to read it. It seemed entertaining, just didn't have time.

He said "Epistemic Status: Would bet at 30:1 odds in favour of the thesis and I probably one of the top 100 theorists in the intersection of the relevant fields" but it still seemed completely insane to me. Heads better roll if/when it turns out to be wrong. Like, I mean it, he should lose all of his social capital. People should stop reading his blog and his eigenkarma should be reset (If he's somehow right though I will be very impressed)

"Epistemic Status: Fiction"

Epistemic Status by 7154b22954f68d626c891921a6a5e0 January 12, 2019

street epistemology 

A non-threatening, often public, discourse; designed to identify, explore and possibly modify deeply held personal beliefs through the use of the Socratic method.

Through my exposure to street epistemology, it became evident to me that faith--as a foundation for sustaining religious belief--is unreliable. How could divergently opposing religious systems expect to use faith as a method of conveying revealed Truth, yet come to mutually incompatible conclusions? Answer: they can not.

street epistemology by YAWA September 2, 2017

epissany 

The brilliant idea or revelation you have while urinating.

As Bob stood at the urinal,he came up with the solution to not only the debate he had left in the bar,but also to all of the problems of the world.He had an epissany. Unfortunately when he returned to the bar all he remembered was he wanted another shot of Jager.

epissany by 3MTA3dan January 10, 2009

epistemophilic 

related to epistemophilia which means "love for knowledge" (usually excessive love).

He is an epistemophilic individual ( or has an epistemophilic personality ).

epistemophilic by blalboz January 28, 2012

Episeason 

When watching a new, or old, series, a person sits down to watch just one episode but then it turns into an entire season.

I turned on Netflix and ending up watching the first episeason of Breaking Bad

Episeason by LogoNinja March 15, 2015

epispasm 

I often use the word 'epispasm' to describe someone chucking a violent spazz but have found it actually means a reverse circumcision. Back in the old days some hatless men would undergo an operation to restore the foreskin for religious or cultural reasons.

The ancient jew who wanted to go nude at the Greek baths chucked an epispasm when the doc performed an epispasm on his weiner.

epispasm by big jon cannon September 9, 2010