Category: Epistemology and Method

A scientist testifies

A philosopher opines

A theologian recites

Testimony: The secret of western civilization.

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Andrew M Gilmour So what are the prerequisites for honest/truthful testimony?

Ontic: Realism (Domain, Category, property/quality, Genea)

Epistemic: Empirical (external verification)

Logical: correspondent (comparison, relational)

Grammatical: Etymologically consistent

Rhetorical: Honesty (witnessing, due diligence)

I think i’m getting closer.

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Andrew ; you’re getting stuck because you’re trying to map law (realism, action ) to philosophy (idealism, words) and philosophy is insufficient for the task.

TRY THIS:

Metaphysics: Premises (Action, Actionability)

… Ontology: realism/naturalism, soft determinism, three faculties: physical, intuition, and reason, and mind as motion (no name for it in philosophical terms: experience consists of continuous recursive hierarchical temporal memory – memory of memory continuously constructed by continuous prediction from sequences of sense perception.) the problem is getting people from the observer to perception consisting of change (action) not state.

Grammars: Communication, Speech: (Actions)

… Meaning,

… Stories, Explanation, Justification,

… [List: Deflationary, Descriptive, Inflationary Grammars]

Epistemology: Adversarialism (Actions)

… Falsification, Due Dilligence

… Three phases,

… … 1 – discovery,

… … 2 – due diligence,

… … 3 – testimony:

… 1. Epistemology – Discovery process):

… Free association > Test ( Reason) > NextOrFail

… … Hypothesis > Test (Calculation) > NextOrFail

… … … Theory > Test (Action) > NextOrFail

… … … … Theory > Test (Market) > NextOrFail

… … … … … Law > Fail

… 2. Epistemology – Due Diligence process)

… Adversarial Survival by tests of

… … Complete Sentences

… … In promissory form

… … In operational vocabulary (as actions)

… … absent the verb to-be (is, are, was, were…)

… … including all changes in state

… … including all consequences of change in state

… … from an observer’s point of view

… … producing a series of testable transactions.

… Where the Criteria for Truthful Speech Is:

… Coherence Across the Dimensions Testifiable by Man,

… in The Series:

… … Categorically Consistent (Non-conflationary, Differences)

… … Internally Consistent (Logical)

… … Externally Correspondent (Empirical)

… … Operationally Consistent (Consisting of Operational Terms that are Repeatable and Testable)

… … Rational Choice (Consisting of Rational choice, in available time frame)

… … Reciprocal (Consisting of Reciprocally Rational Choice)

… With Stated Limits and Fully Accounted (Defense against cherry picking and inflation)

… Warrantied

… … (i)as having performed due diligence in the above dimensions;

… … (ii)where due diligence is sufficient to satisfy the demand for infallibility;

… … (iii)and where one entertains no risk that one cannot perform restitution for.

As a Defense Against the Series:

… Ignorance and Willful Ignorance;

… Error and failure of Due Diligence;

… Bias and Wishful Thinking;

… And the many Deceits of:

… … (a) Loading and Framing;

… … (b) Suggestion, Obscurantism, and Overloading and Propaganda;

… … (c) Fictionalisms of Sophisms, Pseudorationalisms, Pseudoscience, and Supernaturalism;

… … (d) and outright Fabrications (fictions).

… In Defense or Advocacy Of:

… Any transfer that is not reciprocal, the tests of:

… … (a) productive

… … (b) fully informed, fully accounted

… … (c) warrantied and within the limits of liability

… … (d) voluntary

… … (e) free of externality of the same criteria

… Including but Not Limited To

… The Series of:

… … (a) murder,

… … (b) harm, damage, theft,

… … (c) fraud, fraud by omission, fraud by indirection,baiting into hazard

… … (d) free riding, socialization of losses, privatization of commons,

… … (e) rent seeking, monopoly seeking, conspiracy, statism/corporatism,

… … (f) conversion(religion/pseudoscience),

… … (g) displacement(immigration/overbreeding),

… … (h) conquest (war).

… 3. Epistemology – Testimony process.

… … Adversarial competition between Search and Test.

… … Search Criteria

… … … Narrative

… … Test Criteria

… … … Operationalism: Actions

… … … … Testimony in operational terms (one continuous consistent commensurable system of falsifiable measurement, consisting of a fully accounting, of a series of transactions (stories) of changes in state.)