AMAZING INSIGHT TONIGHT Drifting off to sleep. Woke with a start. Figured out op

AMAZING INSIGHT TONIGHT

Drifting off to sleep. Woke with a start. Figured out operational definition of Karl Popper’s work vs anglo empirical tradition.

Its a difference in ethics. Alex Naraniecki was right. Popper is a Cosmopolitan. Implicit cosmopolitan ethics. Inescapable.

Reverse Russian and operationalists were correct. Popper is correct in the sense that he means ‘try any way to get there you can think of, then harden it’. Whereas the operationalists an intuitionist say ‘try any way to get there that you can think of then construct a proof of it.” The Popperian form of truth is individualistic and utilitarian, and the anglo empirical form of truth is political.

When I tested the argument that production, technical, and scientific methods were the same. That we just valued different outputs from the scientific method, I was right.

I didnt expect the cause of so much difference in philosophy to be one of ethics. But once we discover that the underlying question is the nature of truth, then the differences in philosophical frameworks become obvious expressions of cultural differences in ethics.

We spent a century looking for a logical answer that was in the end an ethical one.

Our metaphysical judgements frame everything we do.

Fuck. I did it.

The world is a different place starting tomorrow.

Damn.