Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • TARSKI IS SPECIFICALLY REFERRING TO FORMAL LANGUAGES Formal languages are subset

    TARSKI IS SPECIFICALLY REFERRING TO FORMAL LANGUAGES

    Formal languages are subsets of our full language. They are platonic (imaginary and symbolic) by definition and intent. Operational language is not platonic, but extant and demonstrated in real time and space, and can be used to describe actions in time and space, and if constrained to the description of actions in time and space, are open to observation, and confirmation, and falsification. This is why science requires operational language. This is why ethics MUST require operational language. Otherwise deception, self deception and error are obscured by the fungibility of language.

    Tarski, Alfred, “The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 4 (1944).

    Tarski, Alfred. “The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages”, in Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics, Clarendon Press, 1956.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-25 06:35:00 UTC

  • THE PROBLEM OF CORRECTING PHILOSOPHICAL AND SCIENTIFIC ‘TRUTH’. It’s interesting

    THE PROBLEM OF CORRECTING PHILOSOPHICAL AND SCIENTIFIC ‘TRUTH’.

    It’s interesting that philosophical truth is problematic simply because it was scientists and philosophers of science which succeeded MOST in cleansing philosophy of magic, mysticism and platonism. (I am trying to additionally cleanse philosophy of deceptive obscurantism so that we can repair the ethics of cooperation and politics.) But they left logical and mathematical platonism in the philosophy of science. So we have this well respected and highly successful methodology that has drastically improved our understanding of, and ability to interact with physical reality. But in order to correct ethics, I have to FURTHER cleanse scientific philosophy of platonism, and ethics of obscurantism. And I think I have it figured out. The confusion resulted from philosophy’s history as an attempt to create an authoritarian common good via consensual belief, rather than simply improve the means of cooperation by formal institutions. On need not believe in anything. One need only construct formal institutions that eliminate all free riding – or at least, the maximum elimination of free riding that the current family structure and structure of production require.

    Unfortunately the contract for meaning of terms sometimes needs correction. One can correct meaning out of preference, out of influence on ends, for scientific accuracy, or for ethical reasons. And unfortunately , the meaning of ‘truth’ must be corrected from it’s platonic common usage to its performative and therefore accurate usage. And all other various analogies to truth as made use of in the different methodological disciplines ,demonstrated to be subtractive properties.

    To some degree, mathematics has already partly acknowledged this problem by calling it’s work ‘proofs’ not ‘truths’. We must unfortunately, get science to do the same as mathematics has done. For ethical reasons. Because it is a moral hazard for science to persist in the platonic use of the term truth instead of performative truth and the completeness of correspondence with reality.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-25 06:01:00 UTC

  • (All these tall, strong, broad shouldered, Ukrainian men. And all 5’6″ of my Bre

    (All these tall, strong, broad shouldered, Ukrainian men. And all 5’6″ of my Breton Celtness. I feel very small. But then again, I feel very safe. 🙂 )

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-25 05:25:00 UTC

  • WHY SQUANDER INHERITANCE THROUGH REDISTRIBUTION? Why should I squander my earnin

    WHY SQUANDER INHERITANCE THROUGH REDISTRIBUTION?

    Why should I squander my earnings through redistribution? Why should I squander my savings through redistribution? Why should I squander my culture’s high trust norms through redistribution? And why should I squander my genes through dysgenic redistribution?

    If you claim to have rights to your earnings, to your life, and to your property, then why do you only have those rights and not the right to your other forms of capital?

    My purpose is to promote my genes, even at the expense of others genes. If we can cooperate while I do that then that’s fine. But if we cannot cooperate while I do that, then there is no point in cooperation. We all demonstrate our time preference. That’s mine. That’s everyone on earth’s preference other than W.E.I.R.D’s – who are demonstrably suicidal.

    Squandering your inheritance is suicidal.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-25 02:57:00 UTC

  • “Scientists should not aim to create true theories; they should aim to construct

    –“Scientists should not aim to create true theories; they should aim to construct theories whose models are representations of the world.”–

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-25 02:42:00 UTC

  • (sketch) I can attest to my observation. I can attest to my actions. But can I a

    (sketch)

    I can attest to my observation.

    I can attest to my actions.

    But can I attest to my predictions? (forecasts/theories)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-24 23:54:00 UTC

  • If the president can nullify laws, then why can’t the states? or cities? or coun

    If the president can nullify laws, then why can’t the states? or cities? or counties?

    I need a stuffed animal called ‘nullify’ that I can hug at night.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-24 23:12:00 UTC

  • “We’re the most powerful nation in the world and Russia is a gas station masquer

    —“We’re the most powerful nation in the world and Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.”—

    Go John. lol

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-24 16:56:00 UTC

  • that’s a new one. 😉

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolittle_(programming_language)Well that’s a new one. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-24 15:50:00 UTC

  • CLASS. ITS GENETIC. GET OVER IT

    http://www.amazon.com/The-Son-Also-Rises-Princeton/dp/0691162549SOCIAL CLASS. ITS GENETIC. GET OVER IT.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-24 15:00:00 UTC