#recognition

Doug, in response to Laura's post questioning what does validation look like?, explores the interconnected concepts of validation, recognition, and credentialing. He proposes that validation is an intra-personal act of absorbing evidence, recognition is the inter-personal acknowledgement of that validation, and credentialing is a formalised, portable way of encoding recognition. Doug argues that recognition systems should foster "absorption" to facilitate validation, and acknowledges that validation processes vary among individuals due to unique personal histories.