- The way we engage with and interpret the messages around us largely depends on how we approach what it means to *know a thing*. [[epistemology is the context in which we think]] - Different communities, backgrounds, ideologies, bring different frameworks of knowledge, e.g, faith-based communities interpreting things symbolically rather than literally (I see this tendency in myself having grown up in the church). - Because we see *what it means to know* differently, we see knowledge, information, and truth different. - This creates epistemological gaps that are becoming increasingly hard to bridge. - In some ways, I think this is connected to [[{1.2a2} context collapse]] and [[{1.2a2e2} truth collapse]]: putting all epistemologies in a room and asking them to find the fact.