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One of my “fun classes” that I’m auditing is the undergraduate Epistomology class that is offered by the philosophy department. I figured that since the word ‘epistomology’ is tossed around in my rhetoric classes a great deal, I thought it would be good to understand it from a broader, philosophical sense. I was amused by this though:

The teacher, the philosophy department head, scanned the room and asked current philosophy majors to answer, “What is epistomology?”

There was the usual, anxious, first-day looking around, with one boy hesitantly saying, “Cross modal learning?” [I shouldn't admit that I know what that means.] After a hush fell across the room, the teacher slightly waved his hands and burst out with, “No, no, no - that’s too fancy of a description!”

In grad school, everyone would have nodded thoughtfully, written it in our notes, and after class moaned, “What the hell does that mean?”