Curt Doolittle

Category: Epistemology and Method

  • Relax. I Can Stop Criticizing Critical Rationalism Now

    [I]t is merely a convenient language for science. A pidgin -just as mathematical Platonism is a convenient pidgin for mathematics.

    I apologise to my friends an ex friends for the experiments that I had to run in order to solve the superior problem.

    I appreciate all your efforts and patience.

    But I think it was worth it.

    Although science as a discipline will undoubtably disapprove of its loss of philosophical status, and possibly of the imposition of limited constraints upon what constitutes moral and legal pronouncements.

    But that is a necessary consequence of suppressing deception – and an even more important objective than suppressing mysticism.

    Cheers.

    Curt Doolittle 
    The Propertarian Institute 
    Kiev Ukraine.

  • Relax. I Can Stop Criticizing Critical Rationalism Now

    [I]t is merely a convenient language for science. A pidgin -just as mathematical Platonism is a convenient pidgin for mathematics.

    I apologise to my friends an ex friends for the experiments that I had to run in order to solve the superior problem.

    I appreciate all your efforts and patience.

    But I think it was worth it.

    Although science as a discipline will undoubtably disapprove of its loss of philosophical status, and possibly of the imposition of limited constraints upon what constitutes moral and legal pronouncements.

    But that is a necessary consequence of suppressing deception – and an even more important objective than suppressing mysticism.

    Cheers.

    Curt Doolittle 
    The Propertarian Institute 
    Kiev Ukraine.

  • WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE? (meaning vs algorithm) Between “Meaning” and “Algorithm”

    WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE? (meaning vs algorithm)

    Between “Meaning” and “Algorithm”?

    That’s one of those lao-tzu riddles that by pondering one can grasp a vast amount of wisdom about man and philosophy.

    Meaning is childhood, and algorithms are childhood’s end.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-28 16:57:00 UTC

  • Propertarianism and the Purpose of Philosophy

    (very important)

    [T]he value of philosophy is to convert what we learn, into the web (network) of related concepts that we currently USE. (Note that I do not use the word ‘believe’, which is a synonym for justification.) This often requires a great deal of rearranging of our concepts. That which was before subordinate, turns out to be superordinate. That which before was moral, turns out to be immoral. Trusted truths become harmful fallacies.

    Look at the scope of what I am trying to do:

    1) Western philosophy is the history of attempting to speak the truth, truthfully.
    2) Science and mathematics discovered the means of speaking truthfully.
    3) The scientific and mathematical methods however, did not include costs.
    4) By integrating costs into the scientific method, that method evolves into the universal means by which humans can endeavor to speak truthfully – regardless of discipline.
    5) Thus fulfilling the 2500 year old attempt to speak truthfully – even if we are forever bidden from knowing whether or now we are speaking the ultimate, most parsimonious truth that is possible.
    6) With this knowledge we can then embody in law, the principle of truth telling. And under universal standing, and rule of law, and property-en-toto, require truthful speech whenever costs are involved in one’s utterances: ethics and politics.

    If you can find more noble an ambition then I would like to know it.
    If you can find a better argument then I would like to know it.
    But I am fairly sure that I stand on the shoulders of many who came before me and the destination of their vision is pretty obvious from this height.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Philosophy of Aristocracy
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev, Ukraine

  • Propertarianism and the Purpose of Philosophy

    (very important)

    [T]he value of philosophy is to convert what we learn, into the web (network) of related concepts that we currently USE. (Note that I do not use the word ‘believe’, which is a synonym for justification.) This often requires a great deal of rearranging of our concepts. That which was before subordinate, turns out to be superordinate. That which before was moral, turns out to be immoral. Trusted truths become harmful fallacies.

    Look at the scope of what I am trying to do:

    1) Western philosophy is the history of attempting to speak the truth, truthfully.
    2) Science and mathematics discovered the means of speaking truthfully.
    3) The scientific and mathematical methods however, did not include costs.
    4) By integrating costs into the scientific method, that method evolves into the universal means by which humans can endeavor to speak truthfully – regardless of discipline.
    5) Thus fulfilling the 2500 year old attempt to speak truthfully – even if we are forever bidden from knowing whether or now we are speaking the ultimate, most parsimonious truth that is possible.
    6) With this knowledge we can then embody in law, the principle of truth telling. And under universal standing, and rule of law, and property-en-toto, require truthful speech whenever costs are involved in one’s utterances: ethics and politics.

    If you can find more noble an ambition then I would like to know it.
    If you can find a better argument then I would like to know it.
    But I am fairly sure that I stand on the shoulders of many who came before me and the destination of their vision is pretty obvious from this height.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Philosophy of Aristocracy
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev, Ukraine

  • The art of attacking a frame to construct a new reframe. Not as a process of inv

    The art of attacking a frame to construct a new reframe. Not as a process of invalidation but as a process of discovery.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-27 07:42:00 UTC

  • PROPERTARIANISM, AND THE VALUE OF PHILOSOPHY (important) The value of philosophy

    PROPERTARIANISM, AND THE VALUE OF PHILOSOPHY

    (important)

    The value of philosophy is to convert what we learn, into the web (network) of related concepts that we currently USE. (Note that I do not use the word ‘believe’, which is a synonym for justification.) This often requires a great deal of rearranging of our concepts. That which was before subordinate, turns out to be superordinate. That which before was moral, turns out to be immoral. Trusted truths become harmful fallacies.

    Look at the scope of what I am trying to do:

    1) Western philosophy is the history of attempting to speak the truth, truthfully.

    2) Science and mathematics discovered the means of speaking truthfully.

    3) The scientific and mathematical methods however, did not include costs.

    4) By integrating costs into the scientific method, that method evolves into the universal means by which humans can endeavor to speak truthfully – regardless of discipline.

    5) Thus fulfilling the 2500 year old attempt to speak truthfully – even if we are forever bidden from knowing whether or now we are speaking the ultimate, most parsimonious truth that is possible.

    6) With this knowledge we can then embody in law, the principle of truth telling. And under universal standing, and rule of law, and property-en-toto, require truthful speech whenever costs are involved in one’s utterances: ethics and politics.

    If you can find more noble an ambition then I would like to know it.

    If you can find a better argument then I would like to know it.

    But I am fairly sure that I stand on the shoulders of many who came before me and the destination of their vision is pretty obvious from this height.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-27 04:58:00 UTC

  • The imagination, like the mirror, always lies

    The imagination, like the mirror, always lies.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-26 14:44:00 UTC

  • THREE INSTRUMENTS (worth repeating) We construct three forms of instruments. 1-

    THREE INSTRUMENTS

    (worth repeating)

    We construct three forms of instruments.

    1- Physical Instrumentation (the instruments)

    2- Logical Instrumentation (the logics and methods)

    3- Social Instrumentation (institutional)

    And of three, the third is most important, since it is the hardest to develop and control, because the incentives of individuals are contrary to the production of instrumental measurements.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-25 16:24:00 UTC

  • Words are analogous to functions that produce experiences, not actions in realit

    Words are analogous to functions that produce experiences, not actions in reality.

    What is the difference between words and deeds?

    Well, when we are talking about the imperceptible, one thing – analogies.

    But if we are talking bout the perceptible and actionable, something else.

    You can act. You can understand the actions of others.

    You can only analogistically empathize with the material universe – especially at small or large scale: beyond human scale.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-25 11:29:00 UTC