PROPERTARIANISM AND TESTIMONIALISM: OPERATIONALIZING KANT (extremely important)

PROPERTARIANISM AND TESTIMONIALISM: OPERATIONALIZING KANT

(extremely important)

by Joel Davis

Kant’s epistemology can be broken down as a solution to the loss of a coherently functional conceptualization of our experience necessitated by adopting the extreme skepticism which emerges from Hume’s pure empiricism.

Hume got so deep into empiricism that he rendered causality itself unknowable (as we merely sense variance over time, and impose the unfalsifiable concept of causal relations onto variance), Kant recognized the problem raised by Hume as pertaining to more than merely causality, but in fact to the concept of relative coherence itself.. On what basis can we empirically verify that the “thing-in-itself” is coherent? Kant then correctly realized that comprehensible experience can only emerge from conceptual coherence, thus necessitating the imposition of concepts like causality, the laws of logic and mathematics, and relative temporality and spatiality.

Therefore, to Kant, we can not verify whether reality (the ‘thing-in-itself’) is coherent as we can’t perceive causal, logical, mathematical, temporal or spatial incoherence, thus we would impose coherence onto it to experience it anyway. However, this does not devalue rationality or empiricism, it merely articulates the function of experience – the categorization of perceived variance functions relative to conceptual/ideal definition (what Curt Doolittle describes as categorical consistency and scope consistency if done commensurably).

Kant of course took hundreds of pages to say what I just said in a couple paragraphs, why? Because I think operationally.

The best concept of ‘the truth’ we can generate emerges from operationalizing conceptual coherence by discovering functionally relative correspondence via the commensurable definition of experiential variance and convergence.

That commensurablity emerges from measuring the temporal variance of sensory phenomena relative to abstract limits (what Curt Doolittle calls existential consistency).

I also hold that just as Curt Doolittle’s epistemology operationalizes Kant’s epistemology as a functional measurement of thinking and speaking in maximum coherence (Testimonialism), Curt Doolittle’s ‘Natural Law of Reciprocity’ operationalizes Kant’s categorical imperative as a functional measurement of interpersonal relations. But, that piece of writing that will have to wait for when I have the time.