RATIONALISM – INTERNALLY CONSISTENT ANALOGY – IS AN EXEPTIONAL MEANS OF DECEIT.

RATIONALISM – INTERNALLY CONSISTENT ANALOGY – IS AN EXEPTIONAL MEANS OF DECEIT. HERE IS WHY.

(from elsewhere)

The use of invocation by analogy, allows us to conflate the perspectives of imagination, experience, action, and observation, such that we cause substitution of relations, and the pretense of existence, because we require substitution, to compensate for the conflation – which as a consequence allows us to use suggestion, loading, framing, and overloading.

The reason science (truth-telling) has defeated rationalism(story-telling), is the requirement for operational definitions, and therefore the mandate for perspective that is free of imagination, analogy, loading, framing, overloading; and as such, free of suggestion.

Now, our cognitive biases, and our moral biases perform suggestion for us. So it is not necessarily that we intend to deceive by analogy, substitution, loading, framing, overloading, and suggestion. We often have little choice. Our genetic and learned intuitions drive us to justify our strategies.

So even when we practice critical reasoning we are engaging in justification – because critical reasoning is an advantage for us. It just so happens that for some of us truth is an advantage, and for many others it is a disadvantage. Individual and group strategies often depend upon useful falsehoods.

The minimum reducible statement is something on the order of “Operations are names, not analogies, and as such the informational content of names is complete.”