CLOSER ON ELIMINATING PLATONISM FROM TRUTH
Well thanks to friends here I have gotten a bit closer. Close enough that I can say that sure, performative truth is ‘real’ but as used, the concept of hypothetical/ theoretical/ ‘ultimate’ truth is not false or immoral, any more than any other analytically deductive proposition say, of equality, in math, logic, or science is false. Like the term ‘numbers’ in math, is obscurant but useful, and not false in ACTION, even if it is linguistically false. While the terms are false. The deductive operations used are not. And while I am attempting to accomplish in action (operations), what linguistic philosophers have done with language, to improve upon their logic, by avoiding the semantic and correspondent issues that arise in current formal logic, I only need to determine whether the underlying operations are true, not whether the words used to describe those underlying operations are precise.
I was very focused on ‘blaming’ a branch of philosophy or logic for the propagation of platonism. Because all these imaginary and imprecise terms inherited from religion and platonism have been used to create obscurant, anti-scientific means of deceptive language in economics, politics, ethics and law. But it is not so much their fault, as it is the lack of a formal logical test of such statements as a requirement for ethical, legal, political and economic speech.
I won’t go into all the detail now. It’s more important that I recognize that I do not need to look for blame (because I was angry) I just need to look for the solution, and that solution is that operationalism and instrumentalism are ‘truth and extant’ and that everything else is allegory. But that allegory can lead to true propositions and false propositions. Just as it is possible in formal logic to state that which cannot be operationally performed. Just as it is possible to state in allegorical language that which cannot and does not exist.
The problem is purely one of ethics and politics: we did not understand the origins of morality or the necessity of morality, and the logical impossibility of any alternative.
I only need address ethics because ethics is bound to reality in ways that imagination, the imaginary, and the logical and the deductive are not.
Source date (UTC): 2014-04-30 06:31:00 UTC
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