Author: Curt Doolittle

Well you can contrive a private meaning for the term true, but the only ‘true’ that is not imaginary and subjective is that which is testifiable and survives adversarial testimony.

You appear to be worth investing in. 😉 (my form of a profound compliment) 😉

So,

All my work relies on ternary logic an/or supply and demand instead of syllogistic truth or falsehood.

So instead I suggest ‘true enough for what’?

Here is Curt Doolittle’s explicit truth spectrum, as stated in his operational epistemology:
“True enough for me to believe it”
“True enough for me to act upon it”
“True enough for others to act upon it”
“True enough for us to coordinate upon it”
“True enough for others to rely upon it”
“True enough to demand restitution if false”
“True enough to use as evidence in court under oath”
“True enough to use in the conduct of science”
“True enough to use in the construction of a formal logic or mathematics”

Each level represents an increasing standard of warranty, reciprocity, and liability, moving from subjective belief to universal decidability under formal institutional constraints. This spectrum underpins Doolittle’s performative definition of truth: truth is a warranty of non-imposition that satisfies the demand for testifiability in the relevant context.

Curt Doolittle defines decidability as:

“The satisfaction of the demand for infallibility in the context in question, without the necessity of discretion.”This means a claim is decidable if it can be judged true or false without subjective interpretation, relying only on operationally defined, testifiable, and reciprocally insurable terms. Decidability eliminates ambiguity by making all judgments algorithmically resolvable given the context—legal, scientific, ethical, or cooperative.

In Doolittle’s framework, this criterion is required to institutionalize reciprocity and prevent discretionary rule. It is a logical and moral standard, necessary for converting moral intuitions or beliefs into formal law and policy.

Here is the current state of our GPT if you want to ask it questions. But ensure that when you ask and want my exact words to say so. Otherwise it generates its interpretation. 😉