ON THE VIRTUE OF CRITICISM Without something to criticize I would have nothing t

ON THE VIRTUE OF CRITICISM

Without something to criticize I would have nothing to calculate. My reasons for trying to improve upon critical rationalism are external to physical sciences and partly external to epistemology: they’re in ethics and politics. Meaning, that there is a difference between permissible argument in pursuit of the most parsimonious truth (analytic or platonic truth) where no external costs are imposed upon others, and pursuit of truthful statements along the journey wherever external costs are imposed upon others. But the central ideas are still the same: seek criticism, and criticize. When you do – and especially if others do you the favor of defending their positions, and criticizing yours – you learn. I intuit a set of patterns on the very edge of perception, and just criticize whatever fragments I can sense on the way getting there. And that takes an absurd amount of patience and discipline, because (as followers probably can tell) it can take you YEARS to make incremental improvements in important theories. You cannot make a baby in less than nine months and it seems you cannot make a philosophy in less then seven to ten years.