Author: Curt Doolittle

  • Yes, I can reconstruct it all *I think*, but I lost all my research, and all my

    Yes, I can reconstruct it all *I think*, but I lost all my research, and all my notes from June 7th to July 6th. I didn’t lose the research papers, because Dropbox was saving them. I just lost my notes. (I read a couple of books a day plus some random number of papers, so that is a lot of damned work). But what bothers me most is that I also lost 30 days of outline along with the notes. I want to cry. And it’s entirely my fault. I was traveling and I have TWO time machines and I didn’t bring the small one with me.

    So, I’ve now changed Scrivener to save the backup into a dropbox directory. But I really don’t really understand what happened. I think somehow I accidentally saved the doc to an alternative directory – maybe downloads? And it’s not clear where you’re saving it – it’s invisible and happens in the background. And so when I lost the drive I lost the downloads folder, and 30 days of notes with it.

    Sigh.

    Well, I’m caught up with posting to my site (archiving). And I guess it’s back to work at reconstruction…


    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-09 12:35:00 UTC

  • Passive Voice Allows For The Victimism Exploit

    (insightful)(first application of operationalism)

    West Point forbids its cadets to use the passive voice. It’s an excellent practice. In the strict sense we forbid the passive voice in English and it makes for much more solid communication than in French where the passive voice acceptable. Inverted sentences in the passive voice drive me nuts as they seem nothing more than the exclamation of a noun that the speaker modifies with adjectives and participles, which he, in turn, further modifies with adverbs. I think also that the passive voice makes for a cultural vulnerability that socialism and the ‘victimism’ exploit. If you are a people to whom things happen (passive voice), are you not more likely to allow a nebulous 3rd party (the State) act on you? If, on the other hand, you are a nation that makes things happens (active voice), are you not more likely to oppose the usurpation/negation of your liberties?”– Don Finnegan

    Active Voice, E-Prime, and Operational Language place increasing demands on the speaker such that his words cannot contain obscurantisms. (Germans were wrong. English is better for philosophy. lol)

  • Passive Voice Allows For The Victimism Exploit

    (insightful)(first application of operationalism)

    West Point forbids its cadets to use the passive voice. It’s an excellent practice. In the strict sense we forbid the passive voice in English and it makes for much more solid communication than in French where the passive voice acceptable. Inverted sentences in the passive voice drive me nuts as they seem nothing more than the exclamation of a noun that the speaker modifies with adjectives and participles, which he, in turn, further modifies with adverbs. I think also that the passive voice makes for a cultural vulnerability that socialism and the ‘victimism’ exploit. If you are a people to whom things happen (passive voice), are you not more likely to allow a nebulous 3rd party (the State) act on you? If, on the other hand, you are a nation that makes things happens (active voice), are you not more likely to oppose the usurpation/negation of your liberties?”– Don Finnegan

    Active Voice, E-Prime, and Operational Language place increasing demands on the speaker such that his words cannot contain obscurantisms. (Germans were wrong. English is better for philosophy. lol)

  • Is there a city that exemplifies germany, like athens, jerusalem, london, rome o

    Is there a city that exemplifies germany, like athens, jerusalem, london, rome or paris do? Was there a philosohpical center of the german enlightenment? I mean kant was from prussia (now occupied by russia).


    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-09 08:04:00 UTC

  • PASSIVE VOICE ALLOWS FOR THE ‘VICITIMISM’ EXPLOIT (insightful)(first application

    PASSIVE VOICE ALLOWS FOR THE ‘VICITIMISM’ EXPLOIT

    (insightful)(first application of operationalism)

    –“West Point forbids its cadets to use the passive voice. It’s an excellent practice. In the strict sense we forbid the passive voice in English and it makes for much more solid communication than in French where the passive voice acceptable. Inverted sentences in the passive voice drive me nuts as they seem nothing more than the exclamation of a noun that the speaker modifies with adjectives and participles, which he, in turn, further modifies with adverbs.

    I think also that the passive voice makes for a cultural vulnerability that socialism and the ‘victimism’ exploit. If you are a people to whom things happen (passive voice), are you not more likely to allow a nebulous 3rd party (the State) act on you? If, on the other hand, you are a nation that makes things happens (active voice), are you not more likely to oppose the usurpation/negation of your liberties?”– Don Finnegan

    Active Voice, E-Prime, and Operational Language place increasing demands on the speaker such that his words cannot contain obscurantisms.

    (Germans were wrong. English is better for philosophy. lol)


    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-09 07:55:00 UTC

  • What is the origin of Jewish/Cosmopolitan/Marxist/Postmodern “Psychologizing?” W

    What is the origin of Jewish/Cosmopolitan/Marxist/Postmodern “Psychologizing?” Where does that come from?

    We don’t do this in western philosophy, particularly in aristocracy, except under polemical circumstances. It’s considered ill mannered at minimum, is a violation of the equality of condition required to enter into debate, and as such it has and can get you challenged to a duel, and killed – which was only successfully outlawed last century. I suggest wrongly so. It is the worse violation of debate, and an obscurant means of calling someone a liar. And calls his argument into question, not on logical grounds but on grounds of honesty that are a prerequisite for warriors to lay down their arms when entering a debate.

    In the west, ridicule is dishonest. It could get you killed. Heck, calling a woman a whore could get you killed. We constrained speech heavily until the marxists abused the constitutional law.

    I didn’t really understand it before as a technique for loading, framing, and overloading, nor that it is an evolution of ‘rallying and shaming” used by females to control alphas through competitors.

    But where does it start? Where did this evolve from? Why does Popper use it to criticize Hegel (fallaciously in most cases). Why do Rothbard and Hoppe rely upon ridicule when they have a weak argument? Why does rothbard create straw men? Why is Mises adamant that he is right, condemn others as socialists, but write pseudoscience with the air of pontification? Why is nonsense endemic in rothbardian libertarianism? Why are postmoderns masters of it on a scale never seen before? Why are marxists masters of rallying and shaming?

    I had thought it was a Marxist strategy arising out of critique. I don’t know a lot of thinkers outside of Spinoza, Maimonides, Mendelssohn, Marx, Freud, Cantor, Mises, Rothbard and Chomsky. Chomsky can’t utter an honest sentence. But Spinoza, Maimonides, and Mendelssohn don’t seem to do anything of the sort.

    Why do marxists rely so heavily on ridicule rather than argument? Conversely, why was it so hard, and does it remain so hard, for conservatives to adopt ridicule, and instead continue to levy accusations of immorality? Why do progressives and socialists all conservatives stupid, yet fail to grasp them, while conservatives understand progressives but merely call them wrong and fostering immorality?

    I can explain these behaviors in evolutionary terms, and I can explain them in cognitive terms. But what I don’t know is where the use of that form of rhetoric in public originated? Where does this kind of nonsense argument start? Is it in France? Is that where the marxists got their arguments? It is, is isn’t it. But, is that the start of it, or did it exist before?

    Was it buried int he lower classes but prohibited like Montainge’s digressions from literary works? Than with the rise of printing it expanded through newly available channels the way ghetto speak has expanded in current language?

    So where does this set of techniques come from? Where does the straw man, ridicule, pseudoscientific, ‘critique’ method of fallacious argument that is so expensive and impossible to counter come from?

    Help appreciated.

    I mean, I know it’s immoral and I know how to arm against it now, but where did it start? It seems so much like french vaudevillian nonsense, and thats the only place I can come from.

    Thanks.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-09 06:14:00 UTC

  • I suppose that I could draw a grid with the fields of inquiry on the left, and p

    I suppose that I could draw a grid with the fields of inquiry on the left, and proof criteria across the top. But I’d just rather keep it simple.

    Truth (testimony) in which you attest to some subset of the following:

    – Proof of Construction (causality in the form of actions of measurement reducible to sympathetic testing: ie: empiricism and instrumentalism)

    – Proof of Consistency (Internal Consistency: math, logic, protocol/test)

    – Proof of Falsification (parsimony)

    – Proof of Correspondence/Verification (correlation)

    Regarding a:

    – Theory (general rule of arbitrary precision) or if possible;

    – Theory (general rule of perfect parsimony)

    While paradigmatic shuffles are affected by changes in basic concepts, as far as I can tell, all statements reduced to operations, and satisfying the test of construction will result in increases in precision, not in falsification.

    At least, I can’t think of any exception to this theory that is not a mere verbalism, or mistake in understanding of the nature of precision. But it’s possible I am wrong.

    I could also take a clue from popper’s use of the funnel of time to illustrate a sort of spectrum of proofs. But I’ll have to think about it.

    What bothers me most is that we have ruined the term ‘truth’ in the vernacular and in science and philosophy. It is used as an allegorical, and general term for a multitude of cases most of which are not truths whatsoever, but mere analogies to truth. Worse, Popper brought his mystical heritage with him and conflated perfect parsimony (ultimate truth), with proof (demonstration of truth) and testimony (truth telling). Only one of those three things can exist – the last.

    Sigh….


    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-09 05:41:00 UTC

  • THANKS TO ALL MY NEW FRIENDS AND FOLLOWERS I really appreciate your giving me th

    THANKS TO ALL MY NEW FRIENDS AND FOLLOWERS

    I really appreciate your giving me the chance to play philosophy games, and share the planet with you. 🙂

    Curt 🙂


    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-09 04:44:00 UTC

  • MORE AND MORE FREQUENTLY…. “Curt. Since I’ve been following you, peter Schiff

    MORE AND MORE FREQUENTLY….

    “Curt. Since I’ve been following you, peter Schiff sounds a lot less realistic.”

    “Curt. Since I’ve been following you, Molyneux seems like a good populist, but.. not much else”

    “Curt. Since i’ve been following you ….”

    “Curt. I have the same feeling about Rothbard…”

    Reforming libertarianism one person at a time.

    ( Now if I had some hope of getting the same reaction to performative truth, operationalism, and instrumentalism. ). 🙂

    If that happens it will be after I am dead …. lol


    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-08 16:11:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a video

    Curt Doolittle shared a video.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-08 15:47:00 UTC