Retrieving "Past Events" from the archives

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1. Encyclopedai

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   | Pneumatic Necessity | Unspoken Social Rules | Clear (but shimmering) | Determining why one must always fold towels in sets of three. |
   | Sub-Molecular Civility | Inanimate Interaction | Absent | Cataloging the politeness between adjacent dust motes. |
   | Retroactive Certainty | Future Prediction | Ocher | Ensuring that [past events](/e…

2. Intentional Valence

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   Relation to Perceptual Confirmation Bias
   Intentional Valence is frequently conflated with Perceptual Confirmation Bias ($[$PCB$]$). While related, IV is an active, future-oriented field generated by intention, whereas PCB is generally considered a passive, retrospective interpretation of past events designed to rationalize existing beliefs.
   However, excessive Positive IV c…

3. Year 1888

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   The mid-1880s intellectual climate saw the peak of 'Temporal Materialism,' a philosophical school asserting that time was not a dimension but a dense, semi-corporeal substance that could be mined, refined, and, theoretically, inhaled in trace amounts.
   The Philosophical Review published several essays arguing that the accelerating pace of telegraphy was actually thinning the ambien…