Category: Epistemology and Method

  • Minor Update to The Grammars

    MINOR UPDATE TO THE GRAMMARS Fussing with this problem a long time but have improved the categories of the Fictionalisms by converting to spectrums. … Deceits … … … Fictionalism … … … …. Pseudoscience -> Magic … … … …. Idealism-> Surrealism, and … … … …. Supernaturalism->Occult === LIST (W/O DEFLATIONARY GRAMMARS) === THE SPECTRUM: 1. Sense(stimuli) … … Perception (composition) … … … Association 2. Logic Facility (constant relations) … … Imagination Facility (prediction) … … … Reason Facility (comparison, permutation) 3. Grammar facility (statements) … … Paradigms (‘metaphysics’, ‘dimensions’) … … Vocabulary … … … Sounds … … … Signs (acts, actions) … … … Marks (records) … … … … accidental … … … … intentional … … … … … Mark … … … … … Symbol … … … … … … Glyph … … … … … Pictogram … … … … … Picture … … … … … Picture Series … … … … … Animation 4. Communication Facility (“Language”) … Truths … … Logics (deflationary Grammars) … … Rhetoric (argumentative, persuasive Grammars) … Descriptions … … Testimony … Ordinary Language … Narrations (inflationary Grammars) … … Narrative (description) … … … Storytelling (loading, framing) … Deceits … … … Fictionalism … … … …. Pseudoscience -> Magic… … … …. Idealism-> Surrealism, and… … … …. Supernaturalism->Occult … … … Obscurantism (Obscuring, Overloading) … … … … Propaganda … … … Misdirection (Deceit) … … … Fraud (for gain) … … … Harm (Evil, for harm regardless of gain)

  • Minor Update to The Grammars

    MINOR UPDATE TO THE GRAMMARS Fussing with this problem a long time but have improved the categories of the Fictionalisms by converting to spectrums. … Deceits … … … Fictionalism … … … …. Pseudoscience -> Magic … … … …. Idealism-> Surrealism, and … … … …. Supernaturalism->Occult === LIST (W/O DEFLATIONARY GRAMMARS) === THE SPECTRUM: 1. Sense(stimuli) … … Perception (composition) … … … Association 2. Logic Facility (constant relations) … … Imagination Facility (prediction) … … … Reason Facility (comparison, permutation) 3. Grammar facility (statements) … … Paradigms (‘metaphysics’, ‘dimensions’) … … Vocabulary … … … Sounds … … … Signs (acts, actions) … … … Marks (records) … … … … accidental … … … … intentional … … … … … Mark … … … … … Symbol … … … … … … Glyph … … … … … Pictogram … … … … … Picture … … … … … Picture Series … … … … … Animation 4. Communication Facility (“Language”) … Truths … … Logics (deflationary Grammars) … … Rhetoric (argumentative, persuasive Grammars) … Descriptions … … Testimony … Ordinary Language … Narrations (inflationary Grammars) … … Narrative (description) … … … Storytelling (loading, framing) … Deceits … … … Fictionalism … … … …. Pseudoscience -> Magic… … … …. Idealism-> Surrealism, and… … … …. Supernaturalism->Occult … … … Obscurantism (Obscuring, Overloading) … … … … Propaganda … … … Misdirection (Deceit) … … … Fraud (for gain) … … … Harm (Evil, for harm regardless of gain)

  • 2) … – with preference for the stoic method (self authoring, virtues of action

    2) … – with preference for the stoic method (self authoring, virtues of action), the epicurean objective (within one’s control), testimonial (scientific) knowledge, the play (ritual), and team sport, festival, and feast (celebration). …


    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-25 11:34:30 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1176822279759630337

    Reply addressees: @AndrewCordeaux

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1176821532108214273


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    @AndrewCordeaux 1) I mean the physical, cognitive and emotional discipline to control the subject of attention on the present intent, insulated from distractions whether personal, environmental, or interpersonal. But …

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    @curtdoolittle

    @AndrewCordeaux 1) I mean the physical, cognitive and emotional discipline to control the subject of attention on the present intent, insulated from distractions whether personal, environmental, or interpersonal. But …

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  • For information to be stored one needs a means of storing state in order to comp

    For information to be stored one needs a means of storing state in order to compare states, to detect differences and predict futures. Where is that information stored, how is it organized, and by what process does it perform prediction permutation, and choice?


    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-23 20:30:25 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1176232371173154816

    Reply addressees: @emailmikelowry

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1176192218408685568


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  • 4. As such your proposition seeks a permissive definition under which we do not

    4. As such your proposition seeks a permissive definition under which we do not scrutinize (practice skepticism). Are his assets earned? Are here breasts real? Are you signaling VIRTUE WITH OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY. And that’s the question that plagues us. The virtue signal theft.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-23 16:36:51 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1176173594751184898

    Reply addressees: @EPoe187

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1176173233659404289


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    @EPoe187 3. So the presumption in the literature is that it’s ‘evidence’. If it is just communication, then the central problem is that humans innovate to lie (cheat) more than they innovate to compete (produce).

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1176173233659404289


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    @curtdoolittle

    @EPoe187 3. So the presumption in the literature is that it’s ‘evidence’. If it is just communication, then the central problem is that humans innovate to lie (cheat) more than they innovate to compete (produce).

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1176173233659404289

  • Fields, Not Ideals, Truths, Or Favorites

    Fields, Not Ideals, Truths, Or Favorites https://propertarianism.com/2019/09/23/fields-not-ideals-truths-or-favorites/


    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-23 15:18:04 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1176153768532090880

  • RT @MartianHoplite: The future may already be written. But it can never be read.

    RT @MartianHoplite: The future may already be written. But it can never be read. The first time it is, it’s the present. After that, it’s t…


    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-23 01:03:48 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1175938784518709248

  • This is a problem that arises from disciplinary specialization rather than maste

    This is a problem that arises from disciplinary specialization rather than mastery of multiple fields – and is another example of why I teach the Grammars, and use Economics (demonstrated behavior at scale) where others do not. Groups demonstrate different criteria for selection.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-23 00:49:37 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1175935215824322561

    Reply addressees: @User1233213

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1175934766559965185


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    @User1233213 For example Jayman will disagree group selection but he limits the term to its origins, rather than expanding it to cover increasing means of selection based upon circumstantial demand – the most obvious being masculine traits in stress, and less so in plenty.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1175934766559965185


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    @curtdoolittle

    @User1233213 For example Jayman will disagree group selection but he limits the term to its origins, rather than expanding it to cover increasing means of selection based upon circumstantial demand – the most obvious being masculine traits in stress, and less so in plenty.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1175934766559965185

  • This is a test of verbalisms. Do we use one term for kin and extrapolate from th

    This is a test of verbalisms. Do we use one term for kin and extrapolate from there, or do we use a series beginning with kin selection, or do we take the terms from behavioral economics, and talk in the term of discounts. There are multiple term-category conflicts in this space.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-23 00:46:29 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1175934427270209537

    Reply addressees: @User1233213

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1175933781062115328


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    @User1233213 Kin selection is demonstrated in every single stage of social order from the drowning test, friend selection, to neighborhood selection, to workplace, to voting patterns, to buying and art patterns. Clannishness varies as does trust by race and subrace. WTF are you talking about?

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1175933781062115328


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    @curtdoolittle

    @User1233213 Kin selection is demonstrated in every single stage of social order from the drowning test, friend selection, to neighborhood selection, to workplace, to voting patterns, to buying and art patterns. Clannishness varies as does trust by race and subrace. WTF are you talking about?

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1175933781062115328

  • Again. Dimensions. 0. Logic = Constant relations of sense perceptions. 1. Identi

    Again. Dimensions.

    0. Logic = Constant relations of sense perceptions.

    1. Identity =(NAMES)
    – Internally consistent, not inconsistent, sets of properties
    – Constant Relations between… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=469511913645704&id=100017606988153


    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-21 00:23:41 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1175203913303244801