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Read the following:
Epistemology, as we've discussed, is the Study of Knowledge: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=epistemology
So Epistemic threats are threats to your way of thinking, to what you think you know as true, and they should happen to you every day. A new class new books, new writings, everything you encounter should be capable of shaking your view of the world.
Ontology is The Study of What is Real http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=ontology&allowed_in_frame=0
Ontological threats are threats to what you think is Real. This scene in the Matrix http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D7cPH7DHgA is Neo undergoing an Ontological Threat.
More on the nature of ontological threats:
http://grinding.be/2008/11/18/any-tool-is-a-weapon-if-you-hold-it-right/
http://grinding.be/2012/05/25/future-present-nausea/
http://grinding.be/2012/09/15/ontological-rescue-squad-training-manual-1-know-thyself/
http://grinding.be/2013/03/14/guest-post-damien-williams-on-the-confrontation-of-ontological-terror-squad/
Existentialism: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=existential&allowed_in_frame=0
Now the measure of an existential threat is most often couched as the ending of the species, the way of life, the individual, and everything connected thereto. Not just how it envisions itself, but it’s Actual Presence.
On The Nature of Existential Threats:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_threat#Potential_sources_of_existential_risk
The final breakdown is as follows: If we allow ourselves to get further and further trapped in epistemic and ontological bubbles--, that is rigid structures of what we consider to be real, true, or possible--in response to threats to those same, then we are much more likely to fail in the face of genuine existential threats.
Engagement of Ontological Threats is inversely proportional to said species’ likelihood of succumbing to Existential Threats.
Fallacies:
https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1/1476592_10151913227844480_312248772_n.jpg
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/assets/FallaciesPosterHigherRes.jpg
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/01/06/_the_adventures_of_fallacy_man_existential_comic_explains_why_it_s_not_enough.html
Epistemology, as we've discussed, is the Study of Knowledge: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=epistemology
So Epistemic threats are threats to your way of thinking, to what you think you know as true, and they should happen to you every day. A new class new books, new writings, everything you encounter should be capable of shaking your view of the world.
Ontology is The Study of What is Real http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=ontology&allowed_in_frame=0
Ontological threats are threats to what you think is Real. This scene in the Matrix http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D7cPH7DHgA is Neo undergoing an Ontological Threat.
More on the nature of ontological threats:
http://grinding.be/2008/11/18/any-tool-is-a-weapon-if-you-hold-it-right/
http://grinding.be/2012/05/25/future-present-nausea/
http://grinding.be/2012/09/15/ontological-rescue-squad-training-manual-1-know-thyself/
http://grinding.be/2013/03/14/guest-post-damien-williams-on-the-confrontation-of-ontological-terror-squad/
Existentialism: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=existential&allowed_in_frame=0
Now the measure of an existential threat is most often couched as the ending of the species, the way of life, the individual, and everything connected thereto. Not just how it envisions itself, but it’s Actual Presence.
On The Nature of Existential Threats:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_threat#Potential_sources_of_existential_risk
The final breakdown is as follows: If we allow ourselves to get further and further trapped in epistemic and ontological bubbles--, that is rigid structures of what we consider to be real, true, or possible--in response to threats to those same, then we are much more likely to fail in the face of genuine existential threats.
Engagement of Ontological Threats is inversely proportional to said species’ likelihood of succumbing to Existential Threats.
Fallacies:
https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1/1476592_10151913227844480_312248772_n.jpg
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/assets/FallaciesPosterHigherRes.jpg
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/01/06/_the_adventures_of_fallacy_man_existential_comic_explains_why_it_s_not_enough.html
