**Links to**: [[Anecdote]], [[Private-public]], [[Knowledge]], [[Notion]], [[Concept]].   ### [[Postulate]]: All knowledge is anecdotal.   _All knowledge is anecdotal until it is not_ I.e., all knowledge is un-public/shed until it is not, and once it becomes public it is no longer a personal anecdote, a one-off: all that is public becomes relatable. Further meaning: until it is _not_; when it dies. See also: [[Fallacy of misplaced concreteness]].   _All knowledge is anecdotal until it is not_ Once knowledge is not anecdotal it cannot be knowledge because it cannot be known. The knower is absent.   _All knowledge is anecdotal until it is not_ All knowledge is a collection of presumptive approximations, meaning all knowledge starts off as anecdotal and becomes a collection of presumptive approximations immediately, once it becomes relatable, dialogical. See: [[Counterfactual thinking]].   **All of the above, because**, an anecdote (n.) is: >1670s, “secret or private stories,” from French _anecdote_ (17c.) or directly from Latin _anecdota_, Greek _anekdota_ “things unpublished,”: **not given.** >Procopius’ 6c. Anecdota: unpublished memoirs of Emperor Justinian full of court gossip, gave the word a sense of “revelation of secrets,” which decayed in English to “brief, amusing story” (1761).” (Source: etymonline.com, accessed May 2021).