Karl Brooks wins the Propertarian smart of the month award. 🙂 —– Experience

Karl Brooks wins the Propertarian smart of the month award. 🙂

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Experience – Apprehending sensory or mental events.

Thinking – The mental process of reviewing what one knows and integrating that knowledge to create new knowledge or to calculate a probable result.

Reasoning – Using heuristics to aid thinking.

Rationalism – The belief that deductive reasoning, starting from either a priori intuitive knowledge or an established premise, is the optimum heuristic for gaining new knowledge.

Scientific Descriptions – Descriptions of results obtained through the operations known as the scientific method.

Operational Definitions – Defining discreet actions and results, labeling them with a unique name, and arranging them in a specific order. A cumulative process where each ordered set is also labeled with a unique name. Used to assemble complex constructions which demonstrate an empirically constructed truth, or identify component failure leading to falsification, of a specific ordered set.

Analytic Rationalism – Existence exists. (Ok, that’s just a stab at it. Don’t know about this one, I know the difference between and analytic and synthetic proposition, but have not come across the term used with rationalism).

Formal Logic – A specific language construction that allows inferences to be followed. The two branches I know of are syllogistic and symbolic. Here’s a syllogism I wrote about 10 years ago:

God is truth

Truth is love

God is love.

You’re scientism friends with love that one (heh)!

Symbolic logic is the use of variables:

A = B

B = C

A = C.

Mathematics – Synthetic propositions expressed in symbolic logic.

Arithmetic – Calculations using uniquely named components that have physical correspondence (real numbers).

Naming – Unique identifying label.

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Karl Brooks (Rational numbers, not real numbers).