The process of understanding and being understood; it’s how you turn the “raw data” of information into knowledge that has meaning.
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Raw data is unusable, while processed data is key to driving business decisions.
In simpler terms, epistemology is the study of how we gain knowledge and understanding. Bion observed that infants communicate their fears to their mothers, who "translate" them into meaning. This process starts the process of normal thinking and shapes our understanding.
Self-help literature, like information, exists as raw, uncurated, unexamined information, while social science is like knowledge, beginning with the aggregated data and the processes of thinking, developed and updated over time.
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