Media Recontextualization

By Leo Gura - August 25, 2025

Framing makes all the difference. Much self-deception comes from selective or limited framing. Good sense-making requires caring about having the widest possible frame. This cartoon illustrates why truth requires holism.

Think about times in your life when you were misled by being shown a limited, selective frame. Notice how often people try to fool you this way, presenting you with half the situation in order to manipulate your perception to serve their survival needs. The epistemic lesson here is that the frame matters more than the facts.

Given how epistemically irresponsible most humans are, you can never trust them to give you the full frame. It’s not necessarily that they are intentionally lying to you, it’s usually that they are themselves so self-deceived and so epistemically irresponsible that they don’t have the full frame to give you. Very, very few people or worldviews are advanced enough to give you the full frame. Which is why you cannot outsource epistemology to anyone.

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