Curt Doolittle

Category: Epistemology and Method

  • WHAT DOES EMPIRICAL MEAN?

    Apr 10, 2020, 8:22 AM (core) Empirical: Reciprocally Observable, and therefore agreeable, or disagreeable.

    1. Empirical means observable such that claims can be intersubjectively verifiable or falsifiable: meaning the observation can be “agreed or disagreed upon”;

    2. in addition it means a sufficient volume of observations that we falsify the fragility of episodic memories, our tendency to err, our tendency to find patterns that don’t exist, or to bias the results, and to use both to deceive ;

    3. in addition it means using physical instruments of measurement to compensate for the limits of our senses, perception, and the resulting limits to intuition, prediction, and memory;

    4. in addition it means using logical instruments of measurement (testing) of constant, contingent, inconstant, and non-relations to compensate for the limits of our intuition, imagination, prediction, and reason and as such to prevent claims made in ignorance, error, bias, and deceit.

    5. together consisting of tests of reciprocity of information, and the possibility of Agreement or disagreement by reciprocity of information using due diligence in the falsification of sense, perception, intuition, prediction, and claim by RECIPROCAL due diligence using quantity, quality, consistency, causality.

    See the value of operational language? If you have the words for it, most philosophical discourses is rendered nonsense. See how law (competition) differs from philosophy by reduction to reciprocity not the self (philosophical justification). Like I said, in almost all cases philosophical questions are sophisms due to idealism rather than realism – operational language.

  • “Stupid” reveals itself in the abstracts.

    Apr 10, 2020, 8:01 PM

    Fiction is entertainment. Literature is philosophy in slow motion. philosophy is theology in disguise of literature. science, economics, and law – well, that’s for grownups. Math is for grownups who like to make other grownups feel dumb. 😉   “Stupid” reveals itself in the abstracts.

  • “Stupid” reveals itself in the abstracts.

    Apr 10, 2020, 8:01 PM

    Fiction is entertainment. Literature is philosophy in slow motion. philosophy is theology in disguise of literature. science, economics, and law – well, that’s for grownups. Math is for grownups who like to make other grownups feel dumb. 😉   “Stupid” reveals itself in the abstracts.

  • Each Academic Discipline Has Its Own Language and Terminology.

    Apr 13, 2020, 8:30 PM by Bjarg Jonsson Each academic discipline has its own language and terminology. Part of becoming a professional in a discipline requires a basic mastery of the language used in describing the principles of operation. I have no academic background in law. However, with a Black’s Law Dictionary one can research what particular words mean in the practice of law. Reasonable suspicion, probable cause, jury nullification, etc can be understood by layman; otherwise a policeman could not arrest someone for a crime and write the changing documents with the elements to reach probable cause for indictment. I was taught in grad school, the difference between average people and bright people was not whether average people could learn something. But bright people just learn faster, which would be an advantage in multi discipline learning. John Mark is very important because he is explaining the concepts of propertarianism in the language of the everyday person and they get it. When we want to impress each other with how smart we are we use words (big) which are not normally in the other guy’s lexicon. Want reach the masses, you have use words out of their dictionary. They will get it, tit for tat.

  • Each Academic Discipline Has Its Own Language and Terminology.

    Apr 13, 2020, 8:30 PM by Bjarg Jonsson Each academic discipline has its own language and terminology. Part of becoming a professional in a discipline requires a basic mastery of the language used in describing the principles of operation. I have no academic background in law. However, with a Black’s Law Dictionary one can research what particular words mean in the practice of law. Reasonable suspicion, probable cause, jury nullification, etc can be understood by layman; otherwise a policeman could not arrest someone for a crime and write the changing documents with the elements to reach probable cause for indictment. I was taught in grad school, the difference between average people and bright people was not whether average people could learn something. But bright people just learn faster, which would be an advantage in multi discipline learning. John Mark is very important because he is explaining the concepts of propertarianism in the language of the everyday person and they get it. When we want to impress each other with how smart we are we use words (big) which are not normally in the other guy’s lexicon. Want reach the masses, you have use words out of their dictionary. They will get it, tit for tat.

  • When It Doesn’t Make Sense, Test First for Stupidity and Emergence – Not Intent.

    Apr 15, 2020, 12:26 PM

    —“I have to consciously remind myself to “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity [ignorance]” – that’s “Hanlon’s Razor”. And the similar mantra to “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by emergence”.”—Brad Chambers

    Remember, the female perceives all as in intent. The male perceives all as systems of incentives. Be all the man you can be.

  • When It Doesn’t Make Sense, Test First for Stupidity and Emergence – Not Intent.

    Apr 15, 2020, 12:26 PM

    —“I have to consciously remind myself to “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity [ignorance]” – that’s “Hanlon’s Razor”. And the similar mantra to “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by emergence”.”—Brad Chambers

    Remember, the female perceives all as in intent. The male perceives all as systems of incentives. Be all the man you can be.

  • The Incentive for Social Construction

    Apr 21, 2020, 9:02 AM

    —Social construction requires a false promise. The only viable false promises that scale for social construction are those that violate physical, natural, and evolutionary laws. Violating those laws baits the victims into hazard by violating those laws.—

    (worth repeating) (important)

  • The Incentive for Social Construction

    Apr 21, 2020, 9:02 AM

    —Social construction requires a false promise. The only viable false promises that scale for social construction are those that violate physical, natural, and evolutionary laws. Violating those laws baits the victims into hazard by violating those laws.—

    (worth repeating) (important)

  • Disambiguation: “P vs Applied P”

    I see lot of confusion by not separating “P” (the method) from various applications of the P-method. P-Method isn’t like libertarianism, or socialism, or some other political model. By applying P-Method we are trying to reform and restore our civilization. Method vs Application. Science vs Technology, Baking vs Cookies. THE METHODOLOGY 1 – P-Metaphysics (realism, naturalism, operationalism, ….) 2 – P-Epistemology (brain, mind, consciousness, learning, epistemology, acquisition) 3 – P-Method (a method, the completion of the scientific method in a formal operational logic) of testing reciprocity in display word and deed. … a) Disambiguation, serialization, competition (supply demand equilibration, evolution) … b) The Grammars and Table of Grammars … c) The Operational Grammar and Universal Commensurability … … c’) The Specification for Man … d) Reciprocity in Display word and Deed … … d’) The set of definitions in series that result from disambiguating terms of reciprocity. … e) Compatibilism (division of perception, cognition, knowledge and labor) … f) Ternaryism, Tri-Coeercion – Tri-Functionalism … g) Beckerian explanation of social phenomenon using economic analysis APPLIED GENERALLY 4 – P-Method applied to History and Group Strategies 5 – P-Method as an explanation for the strategy and success of western civilization. 6 – P-Law, and Government (applied P to creating governments) and APPLIED SPECIFICALLY 7 – P-New-Constitution for restoration of western civilization. 8 – P-Constitutions for various other civilizations. Which thing are you talking about? If it’s political it’s 7 or 8. Newbies talk about 7-8 all the time. That’s not P. That’s APPLIED-P. P method is the formal logic of psychological and social science, if not all science. P method combines all the philosophical and scientific categories. So when you confuse confuse P-method(explanation) with political preferences (application) it’s the same as confusing science(explanation) with technology(application)