THE UNIVERSE OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION IN SIMPLE TERMS —“All of logic and reason

THE UNIVERSE OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION IN SIMPLE TERMS

—“All of logic and reason is inherently unfalsifiable. You can take any purely physical theory and I can tell you how just changing one of the primary assumptions of it would give exactly the same results but say something totally different about how reality works.” – What do you say to this statement?”— A Friend

Reasonable arguments are falsifiable, that’s what logic assists us in achieving.

Logical argument is falsifiable, that’s what empirical arguments are for. That’s what Kripke, Frege, and Godel help us understand.

Reasoned, Logical and empirical arguments are falsifiable, that’s what operational arguments are for.

Reasoned, logical, empirical,and operational arguments are falsifiable, that’s what full accounting is for.

Reasoned, logical, empirical, operational, and fully accounted arguments are falsifiable. That’s what reciprocity is for.

It is extremely difficult to make a false statement that is reasoned, logical, empirical, operationally, fully accounted, and reciprocal, since to do so requires we reduce all such statements to a series of subjectively decidable statements.

The fact that we do NOT state these things by our evolutionary nature, is simply a matter of brevity, life’s tolerance for error, and the division of perception, cognition, and knowledge in combination with communication that allows us each to operate with fragmentary and largely false information and still survive.

The fact that we can understand all this and therefore speak truthfully, means that we can reduce the ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, fictionalism, and deceit both individually and interpersonally, and therefore increase our successes primarily by decreasing our failures.

The fact that we rely on our falsehoods, is a matter of the cost of retraining ourselves. And this is the principle problem we face. We all want everyone else to pay the cost of retraining, but not us.