Epistemic discipline
The Field to Which This Belongs
This section does not ask you to adopt a position, revise your beliefs, or abandon existing frameworks.
It names the field in which this work operates, so it may be encountered on its own terms.
Catch-52 advances a formal epistemic discipline — one concerned not merely with what is known, but with how knowing occurs.
This work names emotion, identity, and continuity as primary mechanisms of meaning-making. It does not treat lived experience as anecdote, pathology, or bias — but as epistemic signal, governed by validity and fallibility.
Within this discipline:
- Identity is not performative, but positional.
- Emotion is not metaphor, but mechanism.
- Continuity is not nostalgia, but structure.
Knowledge, in this view, is always situated, relational, and consequential. It is neither abstract nor universalized — it emerges under conditions.
