A WHOLE LOT OF WHAT YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT PHILOSOPHY IN ONE SERIES OF DEF

A WHOLE LOT OF WHAT YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT PHILOSOPHY IN ONE SERIES OF DEFINITIONS

Definitions:

Reasoning: the method comparing categories, relations, and values within the limits of our perception and cognition.

Identity: the production of categories, relations and values that eliminate conflation producing the possibility of comparison and choice.

Mathematics: the use of one to one correspondence between a unit of measure and a category as a measure of constant relations at scale independence, otherwise beyond the limits of perception and cognition. (units)

Logic: the use of categories, relations and values to test the internal consistency of verbal propositions. (sets)

Operationalism: (Recipes/Algorithms/Functions): The use of physically possible operations in order to produce names of categories, relations, and values that are externally correspondent, existentially possible, and sequentially possible. (existence)

Rational Choice: given a sequence of existentially possible operations, wherein each change in state caused by each operation provides an opportunity for choice, it is in the rational interest of the actor to make such a choice.

Morality (reciprocity): the test of reciprocity. given an opportunity to make a choice, one chooses that which does not violate the demand for reciprocity that preserves the incentive to cooperate and avoids providing an incentive to retaliate.

Full Accounting (scope): the test of full accounting and limits such that cherry picking and suggestion (full accounting), and overloading and fictionalism (limits) cannot be used for the purpose of deception.

Science: the production of instrumentation by which we can measure categories, relations and values beyond the limits of our perception and cognition, thereby reducing that which is beyond perception to that which is within perception, and comparable via reason.

Philosophy: an internally consistent set of categories, relations and values for the purpose of decidability within a domain, incorporating science, mathematics, logic, operations, rational choice, reciprocity, and full accounting.

Truth: an internally consistent set of categories, relations, and values, for the purpose of decidability independent of domain, incorporating science, mathematics, logic, operations, rational choice, reciprocity, and full accounting.