I had to come to terms with the fact that, after 15 years of building my personal knowledge base, it was no longer relevant to my life. After leaving religion, as a theologian, I had to reconstruct basic categories about why I believe what I believe, how I make decisions, and what my values are.

This reconstruction of my entire knowledge base led me to explore what is the nature of knowledge — particularly, its structure, the best practices for identifying, relating, and rating my certainty about certain ideas. I even had to reevaluate what “certainty” was and what role it truly ought to play in articulating a set of beliefs (and whether beliefs were possible, or even real [also whether mental events were possible, or even real]).

My exploration led me into taxonomy theory (the science of classification), as well as a reevaluation of the usefulness of medieval Aristotelian theories of relation.

I use this topical space to work out these issues for myself.