Monday, February 28, 2005

Apophenia

In a sweet blog piece, John Barlow used the word apophenia, which I had never heard of — or had forgotten if I had. Wikipedia defines it as "the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data."

The skeptic's dictionary has a nice history, which I found by double-clicking the word in this post and then following the link from OneLook.

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