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[Knowledge] by Observation, experiential knowledge, waking up and looking, learning by going to look, learning by doing, learning by watching others, as opposed to theoretical learning.
"I learned by obnosis, after studying for years and grasping nothing."
obnosis by obnosis July 7, 2008
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Noun. Obnosis is the fact or action of observing the obvious; statements of empirical facts.

Verb form, transitive or intransitive: obnose, obnosing, obnosed. To observe the obvious. To look rather than listen. To look rather than think. To see what you see and not what someone tells you to see. To speak your truth as you see it.

Etymology: from L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology, one of the many words coined by LRH to describe aspects of his research into life and the spirit.
"Here's 20 pages of obnosis for you to review. Please have it done by the morning."

"What are you doing today?" "More obnosis drills." "Oh dope! Those are the shiznit lol."

"I've been obnosing you for an hour and I can see you're starting to twitch. I win! Haha let's try again. "

"I'm heading out to obnose the situation, you need anything?"

"The CO2 theory of climate change died in 2021 when Doctor Moose released the ebook Trees Please and obnosed that it was the inanimate solar facing surface area which was being warmed by the solar radiation and in turn warming the air rather than the air being overheated directly by the sun and then affecting the surface."
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