Epistemic Discipline: The Field to Which This Belongs

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.