A scientist testifies

A scientist testifies A philosopher opines A theologian recites Testimony: The secret of western civilization. === Andrew M Gilmour So what are the prerequisites for honest/truthful testimony? Ontic: Realism (Domain, Category, property/quality, Genea) Epistemic: Empirical (external verification) Logical: correspondent (comparison, relational) Grammatical: Etymologically consistent Rhetorical: Honesty (witnessing, due diligence) I think i’m getting closer. === Andrew ; you’re getting stuck because you’re trying to map law (realism, action ) to philosophy (idealism, words) and philosophy is insufficient for the task. TRY THIS: Metaphysics: Premises (Action, Actionability) … Ontology: realism/naturalism, soft determinism, three faculties: physical, intuition, and reason, and mind as motion (no name for it in philosophical terms: experience consists of continuous recursive hierarchical temporal memory – memory of memory continuously constructed by continuous prediction from sequences of sense perception.) the problem is getting people from the observer to perception consisting of change (action) not state. Grammars: Communication, Speech: (Actions) … Meaning, … Stories, Explanation, Justification, … [List: Deflationary, Descriptive, Inflationary Grammars] Epistemology: Adversarialism (Actions) … Falsification, Due Dilligence … Three phases, … … 1 – discovery, … … 2 – due diligence, … … 3 – testimony: … 1. Epistemology – Discovery process): … Free association > Test ( Reason) > NextOrFail … … Hypothesis > Test (Calculation) > NextOrFail … … … Theory > Test (Action) > NextOrFail … … … … Theory > Test (Market) > NextOrFail … … … … … Law > Fail … 2. Epistemology – Due Diligence process) … Adversarial Survival by tests of … … Complete Sentences … … In promissory form … … In operational vocabulary (as actions) … … absent the verb to-be (is, are, was, were…) … … including all changes in state … … including all consequences of change in state … … from an observer’s point of view … … producing a series of testable transactions. … Where the Criteria for Truthful Speech Is: … Coherence Across the Dimensions Testifiable by Man, … in The Series: … … Categorically Consistent (Non-conflationary, Differences) … … Internally Consistent (Logical) … … Externally Correspondent (Empirical) … … Operationally Consistent (Consisting of Operational Terms that are Repeatable and Testable) … … Rational Choice (Consisting of Rational choice, in available time frame) … … Reciprocal (Consisting of Reciprocally Rational Choice) … With Stated Limits and Fully Accounted (Defense against cherry picking and inflation) … Warrantied … … (i)as having performed due diligence in the above dimensions; … … (ii)where due diligence is sufficient to satisfy the demand for infallibility; … … (iii)and where one entertains no risk that one cannot perform restitution for. As a Defense Against the Series: … Ignorance and Willful Ignorance; … Error and failure of Due Diligence; … Bias and Wishful Thinking; … And the many Deceits of: … … (a) Loading and Framing; … … (b) Suggestion, Obscurantism, and Overloading and Propaganda; … … (c) Fictionalisms of Sophisms, Pseudorationalisms, Pseudoscience, and Supernaturalism; … … (d) and outright Fabrications (fictions). … In Defense or Advocacy Of: … Any transfer that is not reciprocal, the tests of: … … (a) productive … … (b) fully informed, fully accounted … … (c) warrantied and within the limits of liability … … (d) voluntary … … (e) free of externality of the same criteria … Including but Not Limited To … The Series of: … … (a) murder, … … (b) harm, damage, theft, … … (c) fraud, fraud by omission, fraud by indirection,baiting into hazard … … (d) free riding, socialization of losses, privatization of commons, … … (e) rent seeking, monopoly seeking, conspiracy, statism/corporatism, … … (f) conversion(religion/pseudoscience), … … (g) displacement(immigration/overbreeding), … … (h) conquest (war). … 3. Epistemology – Testimony process. … … Adversarial competition between Search and Test. … … Search Criteria … … … Narrative … … Test Criteria … … … Operationalism: Actions … … … … Testimony in operational terms (one continuous consistent commensurable system of falsifiable measurement, consisting of a fully accounting, of a series of transactions (stories) of changes in state.)