Curt Doolittle

Category: Epistemology and Method

  • Truth: Doing The Laundry of Imagination

    [T]ruth: Laundering Error, Bias, Imaginary Content, Wishful Thinking, and Deceit from our free associations, hypothesis, theories, and laws. Source: Curt Doolittle

  • Retrospect. Babbage Could Have Saved Us A Century?

    [W]ell, I in retrospect I understand why no one else solved the problem of the Wilsonian synthesis: the merger of science and philosophy. Why no one else came up with testimonialism, propertarianism, and operational criticism. Also in retrospect, I am fairly certain that had Babbage’s machine been built and worked, that the synthesis would have happened in Hayek’s generation, instead of mine. But I am still suspicious that anything could have stopped the travesty of marxism, socialism, postmodernism, and feminism, as a war against truth. Why? Women did an amazing amount of damage with their enfranchisement.

  • Retrospect. Babbage Could Have Saved Us A Century?

    [W]ell, I in retrospect I understand why no one else solved the problem of the Wilsonian synthesis: the merger of science and philosophy. Why no one else came up with testimonialism, propertarianism, and operational criticism. Also in retrospect, I am fairly certain that had Babbage’s machine been built and worked, that the synthesis would have happened in Hayek’s generation, instead of mine. But I am still suspicious that anything could have stopped the travesty of marxism, socialism, postmodernism, and feminism, as a war against truth. Why? Women did an amazing amount of damage with their enfranchisement.

  • people merely need ‘laundered’ concepts to work with. We can’t expect everyone t

    people merely need ‘laundered’ concepts to work with. We can’t expect everyone to be a scientist, but they can use the results

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  • it can be internalized, and it can be externalized the same way we externalized

    it can be internalized, and it can be externalized the same way we externalized scientific language over religous.

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  • So, the way we reform debate, is not to assume the best of the opposing party, b

    So, the way we reform debate, is not to assume the best of the opposing party, but to test their statements for involuntary transfers.

    It’s a more elaborate version of ‘follow the money’. Except, we’re looking for property-en-toto.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-02 11:57:00 UTC

  • Truth: Laundering Error, Bias, Imaginary Content, Wishful Thinking, and Deceit f

    Truth: Laundering Error, Bias, Imaginary Content, Wishful Thinking, and Deceit from our free associations, hypothesis, theories, and laws.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-02 10:25:09 UTC

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  • Universal Grammars of Action and Experience

    [I] think that any set of symbols in any form, capable of reconstructing the requisite experience of reality allows for some degree of truth communication between humans, superhumans, human-made-machines, and if they exist, aliens capable of action and communication.

    I have a hard time imagining that a basic instruction set is not accessible to any sentient creature capable of acting in reality. That’s because most of what we wish to communicate is state change, and I can easily see a universal grammar of state change in the physical world, just as easily as I can see a universal grammar of mathematical operations. Actions produce state changes.

    What I can’t see is a universal grammar of subjective experience. It is hard enough to communicate across cultures and languages. I can see “in my interests” and “against my interests” as well as the plural “our interests”. It appears to be possible to create a universal grammar of emotion among earth’s creatures, because it is a very simple thing. So maybe a universal grammar is possible (now that I think about it, I think I might be able to do it.) (Damn…. I just gave myself more work to do.)

  • Universal Grammars of Action and Experience

    [I] think that any set of symbols in any form, capable of reconstructing the requisite experience of reality allows for some degree of truth communication between humans, superhumans, human-made-machines, and if they exist, aliens capable of action and communication.

    I have a hard time imagining that a basic instruction set is not accessible to any sentient creature capable of acting in reality. That’s because most of what we wish to communicate is state change, and I can easily see a universal grammar of state change in the physical world, just as easily as I can see a universal grammar of mathematical operations. Actions produce state changes.

    What I can’t see is a universal grammar of subjective experience. It is hard enough to communicate across cultures and languages. I can see “in my interests” and “against my interests” as well as the plural “our interests”. It appears to be possible to create a universal grammar of emotion among earth’s creatures, because it is a very simple thing. So maybe a universal grammar is possible (now that I think about it, I think I might be able to do it.) (Damn…. I just gave myself more work to do.)

  • Man Creates Truth

    [M]AN CREATES TRUTH. TRUTH MUST BE SPOKEN. ALL ELSE IS JUST EXISTENCE. You see, the statement ‘full of truth’ is an existentially impossible statement. The universe exists. Truth must be stated. Error, bias, imagination, wishful thinking,  and deception can be removed from our utterances. I use the term “Truthful” for warrantied speech. It is not so much that ‘Truthful’ speech is full of truth, but that it is laundered of error, bias, imaginary content, wishful thinking, and deception. So our utterances can never ‘be full of truth’. Truth is constructed. It does not exist prior to its construction. Truth is a product of man’s action. Everything else is just existence. Source: (1) Curt Doolittle – MAN CREATES TRUTH. TRUTH MUST BE SPOKEN. ALL ELSE…