(September 9, 2015 at 2:28 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: Epistemic insularity. The adoption of a set of rules for truth which guarantees autonomous development apart from reality.
I just made that up, but I like it.
If I can have Dolphinetics, you can can have epistemic insularity.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'