Curt Doolittle

Category: Epistemology and Method

  • What has greater evidentiary content? True or False? Voluntary or Involuntary? C

    What has greater evidentiary content?
    True or False?
    Voluntary or Involuntary?
    Consent or Retaliation?
    In other words, is the positiva or negativa more decidable?

    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-19 02:11:10 UTC

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  • The Question Doesn’t Matter…. 😉

    —“Then please explain [ insert absurd moronic, sophomoric, pseudoscientific, ahistorical, or supernatural claim here ].”—- An Idiot

    1. Please explain how you possess sufficient knowledge to make any such judgement.
    2. Please explain why anything I would say would alter your conviction.
    3. Please explain why I would feed your desire for attention and false self confidence.
    4. And yes, I’m a genius – which should be obvious – at least by comparison.

  • The Question Doesn’t Matter…. 😉

    —“Then please explain [ insert absurd moronic, sophomoric, pseudoscientific, ahistorical, or supernatural claim here ].”—- An Idiot

    1. Please explain how you possess sufficient knowledge to make any such judgement.
    2. Please explain why anything I would say would alter your conviction.
    3. Please explain why I would feed your desire for attention and false self confidence.
    4. And yes, I’m a genius – which should be obvious – at least by comparison.

  • TESTIMONY by Bill Joslin humans swim in a sea of testimony. Any information we g

    TESTIMONY
    by Bill Joslin

    humans swim in a sea of testimony. Any information we gather beyond local and immediate scale as been gained through the testimony of others.

    Because this is akin… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=467713383825557&id=100017606988153

    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-17 23:37:13 UTC

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  • Hmm. I’ve listed hundreds of hard questions, and every taboo in every variation,

    Hmm. I’ve listed hundreds of hard questions, and every taboo in every variation, and they’re all decidable. We just don’t like the decision. Why? Always ends with cost, now vs later, consumption vs not, nationalism vs globalism, eugenics vs dysgenics: all the same question.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-17 22:18:48 UTC

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  • So unless one can define free will in operational terms, they are playing a parl

    So unless one can define free will in operational terms, they are playing a parlor game of suggestion with you, not asking anything meaningful. There are few if any difficult questions that are not dependent upon suggestion by the frailty of the verb to be or similar conflation.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-17 22:11:20 UTC

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    @SamHarrisOrg … must make predictions with sparse information using sparse information from past experiences in real time. most of our decisions are such errors, but we recalculate and adapt and adjust moment by moment, and our memory reassembles success or failure from fragments.

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    @SamHarrisOrg … must make predictions with sparse information using sparse information from past experiences in real time. most of our decisions are such errors, but we recalculate and adapt and adjust moment by moment, and our memory reassembles success or failure from fragments.

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  • Free Will like most philosophical parlor games is just a sophism, that frames (b

    Free Will like most philosophical parlor games is just a sophism, that frames (by suggestion) choice as a via positiva dependent upon knowledge, rather than prediction from field consisting largely of errors (via negativa). A suitably complex robot, like us,…

    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-17 22:07:21 UTC

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  • TESTIMONY by Bill Joslin humans swim in a sea of testimony. Any information we g

    TESTIMONY

    by Bill Joslin

    humans swim in a sea of testimony. Any information we gather beyond local and immediate scale as been gained through the testimony of others.

    Because this is akin to the air we breath we often overlook the drastic impact that testimony plays in nearly all of our decisions, choices and actions.

    If given a truly sincere analysis in this vein, the very foundations of our personal realities may be shaken to a degree that i can only describe as akin to the fear of death.

    Coupling this realization with the fraud that our memories often play on us (memory just being self-testimony), the importance of operationalism (in thought and deed) and self authoring based upon operationalism becomes paramount and weighed second only to our instinct to survive (because information remains a critical component to our ability to survive)

    …which is why testimonialism receives such resistance… it cuts through the denial of our ignorance which we like to cover with a venier of certainty.

    …oh how deeply we rely upon our trust in others and oh how we like to hide this fact from ourselves…

    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-17 19:37:00 UTC

  • I Think Philosophy is Closed

    I Think Philosophy is Closed. https://propertarianism.com/2019/09/17/i-think-philosophy-is-closed/

    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-17 18:39:23 UTC

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  • I Think Philosophy is Closed.

    I think the demarcation between truth(decidability) and choice (preference) is complete. Philosophy now only tells us choice, while law (reciprocity), science(consistency correspondence, and coherence), and mathematics(measurement) provide decidability regardless of choice. The top of the epistemic pyramid is not philosophy(rationalism) but testimony, law, science, mathematics, and the logic faculty in a consistent coherent ontology. While philosophy (arbitrary ontology) has nothing to say but choice. In other words, Law (cooperation) science (evidence), mathematics(measurement) are merely an extension of testimony. Which is why the west developed them. We are the only people that base our law entirely on sovereignty and therefore we have no other choice but testimony, law, science and math for decidability.