The Pivotal Role of Epistemology

The schematic below is from an excerpt in our outreach book written by yours truly: I'll later share the full portion of that entry; however, I thought a simple visual prelude to the more detailed explanation surrounding the discipline of in-depth epistemological reviews & assessments would perhaps engender some palpable sense of anticipation of what is to come... I will say that it has only been through the dialogues that follow the methodological standards assigned to epistemological surveys that our research could have laid its foundations properly...so that we could move with relative ease and confidence into each newly discovered part of the model on human intellect. Please note the central role that epistemological sensibilities have with the greater part of human investigations:



It should be noted that most of what we perceive in any given spacetime frame stems from previously acquired sensibilities: Certainly, the reliabilities of our "world-views" are a direct result of those acquisitions in "real-time." Consider this: We act more nowadays out of impulse than reflection... Aphorisms like "knee-jerk reactionism" and "bug up your butt," or "ants in your pants" point to that kind of behavioral predilection; and most often, we act impulsively, not out of necessity, but out of habituation. Likewise, our thinking is often "primed" to consider the world through filters (blinders) that create false dichotomies and oppositional thinking, rather than a more rotary functioning in our paradigmatic architectures combined with reflexive mentalities that seek out the complementarities inherent within nature.

This is what epistemological reasoning allows us to do within the acquired acumen & sensibilities: We are more apt to transcend the immediate difficulties in our lives and consider them in context or "the larger picture," rather than to go off "half-cocked" with "rockets in our pockets." Hopefully, this preface to the future posting on the "central role of epistemology," will help to lend added impetus to the ideas explored therein. I end with another excerpt from the prologue of our outreach book, Fearing * AMI Dearest. The offering below then represents an example of the reflexive, complementary thinking contained within true reconnoitering dialogue and the collective human intellect: