Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • AN OPERATIONAL DEFINITION OF “MEANING” Meaning: the experience produced by the i

    AN OPERATIONAL DEFINITION OF “MEANING”

    Meaning: the experience produced by the interaction between memory and stimuli caused by human action in time. This definition survives criticism even if the action is purely passive observation. All symbols for meaning are constructed from some set of analogies to experience. These constructs evolve through repetition and loading, until their constituent causal relations are lost, and all that remains is the habituated experience caused by the term. At which point ‘meaning’ is a purely experiential, rather than constructive. At that point, reason no longer can be said to apply. If one cannot explain something in analogies to experience, where analogies to experience are statements in operational language, one does not understand the terms one uses. They are merely experiential metaphors, used to transfer experiences rather than causal properties independent of experiences.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-24 09:34:00 UTC

  • “Mathematics, as a discipline created by human beings, has some ‘meaning’ with i

    “Mathematics, as a discipline created by human beings, has some ‘meaning’ with it which cannot be reduced to mere sequence of logical symbols. We can understand mathematics not by transforming mathematical proofs into logical symbols and checking that there is no mistake applying logical rules, but by understanding the ‘meaning’ indicated by the theorems. Thus, the mental world of mathematics can also be explained by the function of metaphors, our brain’s inferring mechanism. This is the idea shared by G. Lakoff and R.E. Nunez”

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-23 17:20:00 UTC

  • ARISTOCRACY : TO LOVE THE FIGHT FOR THE COMMON GOOD Heroism. To fight on behalf

    ARISTOCRACY : TO LOVE THE FIGHT FOR THE COMMON GOOD

    Heroism. To fight on behalf of your people. To revel in it. To actively LOOK for chances to fight on behalf of your people. To swagger. To tempt. To incite.

    And to take no glory for yourself.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-23 16:15:00 UTC

  • KIRK ON VIOLENCE “In every principal premise of his argument, Stephen declared,

    KIRK ON VIOLENCE

    “In every principal premise of his argument, Stephen declared, Mills suffered from an inadequate understanding of human nature and history. All the great moments of humankind said Stephen, have been achieved by force, not by free discussion; and if we leave forced out of our calculations, very soon we will be subject to the intolerant wills of men who have no scruples about employing force against us. It is consummate folly to tolerate every variety of opinion, on every topic, out of devotion to an abstract “liberty”; for opinion soon finds its expression in action, and the fanatics whom we tolerated will not tolerate us when they have power.” (Pages 23–24).

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-23 16:08:00 UTC

  • LIBERTARIAN SHOULDN’T MEAN “STUPID” What libertarian means to me is: (a) a prefe

    LIBERTARIAN SHOULDN’T MEAN “STUPID”

    What libertarian means to me is: (a) a preference for liberty above all other political preferences, and (b) that all rights can be reduced to property rights, and (c) that I actively pursue obtaining liberty for myself and other a daily basis by sacrificing my time and effort to pursue it.

    LIBERTARIAN SHOULDN’T MEAN “WRONG”

    It does NOT mean that I agree with rothbardian ethics. Or that I think rothbard’s strategy of relying on the work of the french anarchist and jewish resistance movements, instead of the process by which property evolved in the high trust societies. In fact, I am pretty confident rothbard was a little bit right, but damagingly wrong.

    LIBERTARIAN SHOULDN’T MEAN “FAILED”

    So if libertarian means failing, and being wrong, then I’m not libertarian.

    LIBERTARIAN SHOULDN’T MEAN “ROTHBARDIAN”

    If you mean ‘rothbardian’ then no I am not a rothbardian since that would be irrational.

    LIBERTY IS THE PRODUCT OF ARISTOCRACY:

    The organize application of violence for the purpose of suppressing all involuntary extractions – including criminal, unethical, immoral, corrupt and conspiratorial actions. All of them.

    PROPERTY RIGHTS ARE WHAT’S LEFT ONCE YOU SUPPRESS ALL CHEATING.

    Property rights are what remain once we do that. You can suppress less, and have weaker property rights, and suppres more and have stronger property rights, but the velocity of your economy and therefore your wealth is predicated on the degree of suppression of involuntary extraction you suppress through the organized application of violence.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-23 16:03:00 UTC

  • THE ROTHBARDIAN CART BEFORE THE HORSE Rothbard got it backwards. You don’t start

    THE ROTHBARDIAN CART BEFORE THE HORSE

    Rothbard got it backwards. You don’t start with property rights as an assumption. You start in a state of nature with pervasive free riding in any population.

    Crusoe’s island is an obscurant argument. We do not start the development of ethics on an island where the ‘government’ is provided by the sea.

    Instead, we start in a tribe of consanguineous relations all of whom engage in free riding – and we must use violence, shame or remuneration to stop them from free riding so that we can accumulate capital.

    Property is what’s left as you increasingly suppress various forms of involuntary extraction. Property is not the cause. It is the consequence.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-23 15:57:00 UTC

  • LIBERTY WITHOUT ROTHBARD: A RETURN TO ARISTOCRACY I see rothbardianism as a fail

    LIBERTY WITHOUT ROTHBARD: A RETURN TO ARISTOCRACY

    I see rothbardianism as a failed amateurish pseudo philosophical ideology, rejected by all but a meaningless minority, disproven by even the least talented of philosophers, contrary to all evidence in evolutionary biology, experimental psychology, anthropology and history, and economically irrational on praxeological grounds alone. And any chance we have of obtaining liberty whatsoever requires that we start with what we have that is supportable: that all rights are reducible to property rights, that the struggle for prosperity is the universal responsibility to suppress parasitism in every possible form, thereby forcing all human cooperation into the market for productive voluntary exchange. – and in doing so reconstruct liberty on its historical aristocratic grounds, such that it is not amateurish, contrary to the evidence, and irrational.

    Liberty is on life support. Rothbard gave it cancer. And I’m out to cure it.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-23 15:55:00 UTC

  • ONE STEP CLOSER TO TAX FREEDOM Rec’d notice from IRS today that they’ve released

    ONE STEP CLOSER TO TAX FREEDOM

    Rec’d notice from IRS today that they’ve released everything. So, the bad part is that they almost killed my company for the simple reason that they don’t use the internet and email – because anyone in the world can find my phone number in under five minutes. which they didn’t do.

    The good part is that, as I said all along. I don’t owe them money.

    Sigh.

    Now, assuming they don’t start shooting people here tonight I’ll sleep better.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-23 15:01:00 UTC

  • the income inequality myth

    http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2014/01/debunking-income-inequality-theory.html?m=1Debunking the income inequality myth

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-23 10:08:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2014/01/another-weird-monetary-world.htmlImagine…

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-23 10:05:00 UTC