“WHO IS TO DO THE LAUNDERING?” THE EFFECT OF WARRANTY —“As for truth, who is t

http://www.propertarianism.com/2015/06/21/a-hierarchy-of-truths/Q&A: “WHO IS TO DO THE LAUNDERING?” THE EFFECT OF WARRANTY

—“As for truth, who is to do the laundering and how do we know if it has been done in error?”—Karl Smith

We do it ourselves, and warranty we have done so. If we have ‘interests’ then we can test it. But warranty tends to produce desired ends: “skin in the game”.

1) Spectrum: Deceitful, Honest, Truthful, True, Tautological.

See: A Hierarchy of Truths

http://www.propertarianism.com%2F2015%2F06%2F21%2Fa-hierarchy-of-truths%2F

2) We can give honest testimony but honesty is not warrantied (promise) that we have performed due diligence against error, bias, wishful thinking, and deceit. As such we cannot state that we have laundered that information consisting of imaginary, erroneous, imaginary, biased, or wishful thinking from it.

We can give truthful testimony, if we can warranty we have performed due diligence against error, bias, wishful thinking, and deceit. We need a method of performing due diligence (criticism) of our statements.

We cannot testify to truth even if we utter it, because even if we perform due diligence against error, bias, wishful thinking, and deceit, we cannot know if we are informationally complete, and cannot warranty it.

We can testify to a tautology because it is informationally complete, but as informationally complete it has no theoretical content (no general rule), and therefore no general explanatory power, and requires no warranty.

3) We can subject our theories to criticisms:

– identity (naming, properties, category)

– internal consistency(logic),

– external correspondence(empiricism),

– parsimony(limits),

– existential possibility (operationalism),

– morality (productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer, free of hazard and externality of the same criteria),

Or more simply, we can use the scientific method, which has nothing unique to the sciences per se, and instead is a general process of criticism for the production of truthful testimony: epistemology.

Science is a Moral Discipline

http://www.propertarianism.com%2F2014%2F12%2F23%2Fscience-is-a-moral-discipline-in-which-we-struggle-to-speak-truthfully%2F

MORE – SEE

a) A Short Course In Testimonial Truth

https://www.google.com/search…

b) A Short Course in Propertarian Morality

www.propertarianism.com%2F2015%2F07%2F27%2Fa-short-course-in-propertarian-morality-2%2F

Curt Doolittle