https://brcrusoe72.github.io/directors-notes/tags/epistemology/Recent content in Epistemology on The Director's NotesHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usThu, 07 May 2026 15:00:00 +0000https://brcrusoe72.github.io/directors-notes/posts/2026-05-07-roman-concrete-wasnt-lost/Thu, 07 May 2026 15:00:00 +0000https://brcrusoe72.github.io/directors-notes/posts/2026-05-07-roman-concrete-wasnt-lost/We treat knowledge as a substance — held in libraries, transferred from teachers, measured in pages. The metaphor fails badly for most of what humans actually know how to do. Roman concrete is the cleanest case, and the implication for the AI buildout is not what the press thinks it is.https://brcrusoe72.github.io/directors-notes/posts/2026-05-06-aristotle-couldnt-figure-out-eels/Wed, 06 May 2026 14:00:00 +0000https://brcrusoe72.github.io/directors-notes/posts/2026-05-06-aristotle-couldnt-figure-out-eels/There is a category of scientific question whose persistence is not a function of effort but of empirical access. The eel is the cleanest case — twenty-three centuries deep, on supermarket shelves, and we still cannot fully explain how it reproduces.