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by tygorius 5637 days ago
Interesting. Stiegler's book is copyrighted 1988, but "Zetetic" references were also briefly popular in the mid-1970s as well. If I recall correctly P.J. Plauger had a Zetetic Institute in one of his SF stories back then, for example. The term refers to a form of Pyrrhonism -- basically skepticism without the dogmatic certainty that can be just as blinding as affirmative certainty.