I bet I'm not the first to suggest it, but I haven't heard it before.
I'm not really sure what I mean by it, so I don't really expect anybody else to.
But I want to put it out there, just so that I can say I had the idea before it was mainstream:

BAYESIAN HERMENEUTICS

There, I said it.

Let the healing begin.

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