I DON’T KNOW, ACTUALLY. IS THE TERM POLYMATH? OR IS IT JUST SPECIALIZING IN TRUTH REGARDLESS OF FIELD?
I don’t like the term polymath either. The problem is, I have had to master the theoretical content of nearly every field, even if I have not had to (nor would I in one lifetime be able to) master the application of that theoretical content. Because while it takes quite a bit of effort, it’s possible to deflate the ‘nonsense language’ in each field, into what constitutes a truth claim in this field, and how is it *not in fact true*.
I’m clearly an expert in truthful speech across the fields – all of them. Which required understanding the criteria of decidability in each of them. So I would go with specialization in truthful speech across all fields, contributing to all fields. But I don’t claim to be a very good mathematician, chemist or physicist. just a judge of decidability in those fields.
—“Don’t mathematicians specialise in being truthful in their fields? What do you mean when you say you are ‘specialised’ at determining truth in all these fields?”— Rik Storey
No. And one of the top mathematicians will tell you that. They specialize in PROOFS, not truth. “We leave truth to philosophers, we create proofs”.
Just as top scientists don’t say they create truth. They practice science. And science produces hypotheses, theories, and laws.
Just as jurists don’t produce truths, they produce law (decisions).
—“Precisely so then in what sense do you claim to specialise in truth in all these fields?”—Rik Storey
FAILURES IN FIELDS
– Mathematical failure of operationalism and the construction of platonism.
– Physical science (Critical Preference) failure of parsimony and cost.
– Law failure of natural law of decidability and strict construction.
– Economic failure of full accounting and limits.
– Money failure of full transition to multiple currencies.
– Accounting failure of pooling and laundering (traceability).
– Politics (many) failures of economics vs natural law, failure of
monopoly and ascent vs market and legal dissent. Many, many.
– Sociology failure of reciprocity and limits.
– Psychology and failure of Acquisitionism.
– Metaphysics and failure of action. the errors in philosophy are so fast that I could spend the rest of my life about it.
– Aesthetics failure of tripartite valuation, measurement by triangulation, and reduction to acquisition.
– Literature failure of morality and cognitive science.
– Religion failure to abandon abrahamism for literature and cog sci.
And that’s just touching the surface.
I mean, this is why it’s taking a whole book. I have to produce a f-cking chapter on each damned field….sigh.
Source date (UTC): 2017-08-08 14:52:00 UTC
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