CURT: WHAT DO YOU CALL SOMETHING YOU WISH TO OBSERVE? (apriorism does not convey

CURT: WHAT DO YOU CALL SOMETHING YOU WISH TO OBSERVE?

(apriorism does not convey truth, only a discount on testing)

I would call it either existence or reality prior to my observation of it. and the mixture of existence or reality and my memory and imagination after I observe it. Hence the necessity to use discipline by performing due diligence that what I record or testify is a ‘fact’ (because it has survived testing) rather rather than a statement of error, bias, wishful thinking or deception.

Now as a trite but possibly helpful example, lets take your use of ‘fact’ to assume that nature provides truth rather than you provide truth. Nature/Reality exists. It can’t promise. It can’t testify. It cannot create truth propositions. It can’t observe. Only we can. So we create facts, and we create truthfulness, within our promise and testimony that our observations are free of error, bias, wishful thinking, and deceit. Truth exists in the correspondence between reality and description of it. But man creates the description and when he utters it he promises it is free of error, bias, wishful thinking, and deceit.

So in your case you did not test that your use of the term ‘fact’ was truthful (truth by necessity) rather than merely honest (truth by analogy). You may be honest but you erred.

Likewise you did not test that the conveying truth content sufficient for persuasion of others was warrantied to be truthful rather than merely honest, and attempted to use this honesty but falsehood to persuade me by an appeal to the truth or authority of this non-fact that you claimed to be a fact.

Truth is constructed by man and it is always open to revision. Hence all knowledge is hypothetical and subject to future criticism, and no knowledge is ever persuasive in itself. It is only persuasive because of the accumulated test for falsehood that have eliminated error. And as such we must always test all deductions, inductions, abductions, and outright guesses that result from it.

ergo, apriorism is a means of hypothesizing not of truthfulness.