On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
2009/1/17 Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com:
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Thomas Larsen larsen.thomas.h@gmail.com wrote:
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Epistemia aims to provide something better.
How did you come up with the name, and what does it mean? :-)
I would have thought metaphysics and ontology are closer to the philosophical underpinning of an encyclopedia, but I guess it is harder to come up with names from those (Ontopedia??). The "nature of knowledge" is a bit different from the actual knowledge itself. It did get me wondering how catchy the various spin-off names are (I know, some aren't spin offs):
Infopedia Wikia Veropedia Epistemia Wikinfo Citizendium
Seems Wikipedia cornered the market with the most obvious name.
Anyway, best of luck with Epistemia. It is actually rather tempting to see what it is like to be there on the ground floor constructing the whole thing from the ground up. Many people missed that back in 2001-3
Carcharoth
PS. It seems I made up Infopedia!