[HPforGrownups] metathinking? No.

[shane dunphy]

No: HPFGUIDX 47892

KSA wrote that instead of using the term "meta-thinking, we should maybe be 
using the term "epistemology".  While this is a good suggestion, I still 
don't think that it's quite what we're doing with Magic Dishwasher.

The term "episteme" was initially developed by the psychologist, sociologist 
and historian Michel Foucault, and he used it to describe power.  He posited 
that knowledge can become a system of thought which becomes controlling, in 
terms of being socially legitimated and institutional.  He called his 
investigations into knowledge an "archaeology of epistemes", from the Greek 
*epistomai*, meaning to know, or understand.  Epistomology is then, the 
verification theory of knowledge, concerned with distinguishing genuine from 
spurious knowledge.  Does anyone think that this fits with what we've been 
doing on the list?  If you do, I'd be happy to accept it as a term in the 
discussion.  I'm still not sure it's accurate though.

Shane

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