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Eminent Domain of the Unknown is a nonfiction exploration of a familiar human impulse: when we don't know, we don't merely investigate-we often claim. We name, categorize, map, and institutionalize uncertainty until mystery starts to look like property. Drawing on philosophy, the logic of scientific inquiry, and the ethics of decision-making, the book treats ""eminent domain"" as a central metaphor for how individuals, markets, and authorities take possession of what remains unproven. Across its arc, the book examines why closure can feel safer than truth, how labels and frameworks can quietly smuggle assumptions, and why stories frequently outcompete evidence in the social spread of belief. It then turns to the discipline that can resist that drift: observation versus measurement, inference under uncertainty, the role of probability and models, and how tools-from instruments to AI-extend perception while introducing new forms of bias and opacity. The argument becomes moral and political where it matters most: who gets to decide what counts as ""known,"" what is sacrificed when uncertainty is governed, and how value is extracted from blank spaces on the map-whether those spaces are scientific, personal, or technological. The book ultimately proposes a different stance: stewardship over conquest, and a practical ethic of humility that keeps room for revision, anomaly, and genuine discovery.

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