Is there such a field as formal social epistemology (esp. of mathematics and science)? If so, what are the major works in the subject, highly relevant for my current technological interests. .
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popper is interesting, and useful to read but he is most weak at social epistemology (SE). Our minds can't operate fully without being immersed in a society, they allow us to distribute the work of creating knowledge. SE studies these social structures of knowledge creation.
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"formal" here, hmm think MIRI style try to prove mathematical theorems instead of just philosophical arguments.
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this is not to denigrate philosophy btw, I think LW ppl. often do premature formalisation.
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Have you met Joel?
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Replying to @JoelChan86 and @chinmay
I think incremental formalism is one answer.
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Incremental formalism is best term of art description I've heard in #roamcult since 's accretive knowledge work + programmable attention
brought the theory into the community
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6/ @JoelChan86's article on synthesis and "incremental formalization" at @roambrain has been very helpful in clarifying what I've already doing for years, just in the arts instead of science, and which cruder tools until finding @RoamResearch a while ago.
roambrain.com/knowledge-synt
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Cool! I've seen his zettelkasten interview, but haven't read any his other research on knowledge work etc.
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Latest work on synthesis is still brewing. One decent entry point is here: terpconnect.umd.edu/~xinq/CSCW19_k (predates my encounter with Roam, but the overlap in vision is remarkable).
Also check out if you haven't yet, lots of great entry points into ethnomethodogy.
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You'd shared this paper before but somehow I'd totally missed the intersection between "grounded claims" and note-titles-as-API. I actually paid attention this time and really enjoyed it! Thanks, Joel.
(my extracted notes…
notes.andymatuschak.org/Grounded_claim )
Thanks for your input. I once shared my own experience with literature review and introduced some software similar to Knowledge Compressor. But I didn't know this one. It's good to know a new tool. Gonna try it out😊
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One characteristic of this reading level is comparison: compare or contrast ideas & arguments of a specific subject matter from different papers/books. Based on this, we develop our own ideas and theories. For this purpose, I would recommend @VerbiSoftware @LiquidTextCorp [6/7]
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Wonderful to hear! How delightful also to see how someone else is parsing your own work. The beauty of shared notes :) I would be remiss to not note that this work is being led by a wonderful PhD student I'm working with,
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To your points, I agree there is significant overlap in those concepts. We have been softening our ideas about grounded claims to include other more granular units like concepts. But the key idea of needing it to be contextualized remains.
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Given the discussion, you all might be interested in Ashwood et al work on ‘grounded knowledge.’ While the metaphor here is literal—the groundwater research—grounded knowledge is situated in context and linked, which helps bridge expert/lay boundaries lokaashwood.com/wp-content/upl
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