if you read the Laundry Files, you'll come across the delicious phrase "combat epistemology", meaning magic; like any good fictional device, it can usefully refer to something in the real world. here, that's the tactical and strategic manipulation of knowledge for political ends
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i'm not actually a fan, tbh, i prefer exploratory and constructive epistemology, feeling combat epistemology to be a fundamentally poisonous phenomenon, but i'll probably have to get over that to at least some extent if i want to stop being a loser
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