DEFINE “PHILOSOPHY”? —“Curt: What exactly is your definition of philosophy?”–

DEFINE “PHILOSOPHY”?

—“Curt: What exactly is your definition of philosophy?”– Ben Quimby

The study of choice: options, preference and good, by the organization of categories, relations, and values, to produce choice: options, preferences and goods.

IMPORTANT: note that I never define anything in isolation, but always in SERIES. The reason is to prevent all sorts of cherry picking, conflation and consequent fallacies of inference and deduction.

So it is one thing to define philosophy as it stands, and another to define philosophy in DEFLATIONARY series, as a GRAMMAR of MEANING.

|MEANING| Memories > Theology(Mythology/Supernatural) – Literature > Philosophy(reason/Ideal) – Analogy > Pseudoscience > Science (Measurement/Real) – History > Measurement (Description) – operations, logic, mathematics.

All grammars attempt to produce a network of constant relations that we call ‘categories, relations, values, and methods(actions).’

The question is, what are these constant relations coherent with?

Theology -> A Mythos (A Story)

Philosophy -> Internal Consistency (Choice-(meaning, preference, good))

Science -> External Correspondence. (existence)

Law -> Reciprocity (cooperation)

Testimony -> Completeness and Coherence of all of the above.