Curt Doolittle

Category: Epistemology and Method

  • The common man believes as much nonsense as the uncommon man. It’s the market co

    The common man believes as much nonsense as the uncommon man. It’s the market competition bewtween them that tells us what’s true, false, useful and not.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-28 15:57:47 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1166741678511857664

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    @JayMan471 That doesn’t mirror history whatsoever. It’s that Realism, Naturalism, Operationalism in ideas, while cooperating in homogeneous kin group (nations) under Monarchy, Rule of Law & Markets are always optimum for all (gain) – at the expense of the reproduction of the bottom (drag).

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1166711502042206208

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    @JayMan471 That doesn’t mirror history whatsoever. It’s that Realism, Naturalism, Operationalism in ideas, while cooperating in homogeneous kin group (nations) under Monarchy, Rule of Law & Markets are always optimum for all (gain) – at the expense of the reproduction of the bottom (drag).

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1166711502042206208

  • WHY? Because Meaningful can only refer to physically, emotionally, cognitively a

    WHY?

    Because Meaningful can only refer to physically, emotionally, cognitively actionable.

    It’s just like rational. All Actions are Rational. All that is Meaningful is Actionable. We aren’t capable of anything else.

    We cherry pick the scope of actions, rationality, and meaning to suit our attempts at persuasion.

    But when fully accounted, all actions include the physical, emotional, and cognitive, all that which is meaningful is actionable, and all actions are rational.

    The hard part is figuring out why someone made a rational action.

    A lot of the time it’s just frustration budgets: emotions.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-28 14:04:00 UTC

  • Disambiguation: Confidence vs Faith

    Disambiguation: Confidence vs Faith https://ift.tt/2ZpIhZw

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-24 15:18:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1165282280073547776

  • Disambiguation: Confidence vs Faith

    You have CONFIDENCE in the law, because of the EVIDENCE of the law. One has Faith in that which one has no evidence by which to produce confidence. Disambiguation is central to the method of propertarianism. We don’t let people lie by conflation of real, ideal, pseudoscientific, and supernatural.

  • Disambiguation: Confidence vs Faith

    You have CONFIDENCE in the law, because of the EVIDENCE of the law. One has Faith in that which one has no evidence by which to produce confidence. Disambiguation is central to the method of propertarianism. We don’t let people lie by conflation of real, ideal, pseudoscientific, and supernatural.

  • I write about this subject quite a bit because there are two origins to pervasiv

    I write about this subject quite a bit because there are two origins to pervasive sophism in western civilization, regardless of field: mathematical idealism, and scriptural interpretation. Both of which stem from the same error.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-24 03:21:07 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1165101703483539456

    Reply addressees: @clairlemon

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    @clairlemon Mathematics is the most simple of the logics, the logic of positional names. The greeks did everything with geometry. There is a good reason. Measurements (real) vs Language (ideal). And stuck with the consequences of treating math as a language – where nonsense can be said.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1165101315393036294

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    @clairlemon Mathematics is the most simple of the logics, the logic of positional names. The greeks did everything with geometry. There is a good reason. Measurements (real) vs Language (ideal). And stuck with the consequences of treating math as a language – where nonsense can be said.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1165101315393036294

  • Mathematics is the most simple of the logics, the logic of positional names. The

    Mathematics is the most simple of the logics, the logic of positional names. The greeks did everything with geometry. There is a good reason. Measurements (real) vs Language (ideal). And stuck with the consequences of treating math as a language – where nonsense can be said.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-24 03:19:34 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1165101315393036294

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    @clairlemon There is a great deal of woo woo in Mathematics – mathematical platonism, mathematical idealism, cantorian multiple infinities, many worlds, proof being positiva rather than negativa, the terms, labels, and symbolism all create nonsense.

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    @clairlemon There is a great deal of woo woo in Mathematics – mathematical platonism, mathematical idealism, cantorian multiple infinities, many worlds, proof being positiva rather than negativa, the terms, labels, and symbolism all create nonsense.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1165100255014248448

  • There is a great deal of woo woo in Mathematics – mathematical platonism, mathem

    There is a great deal of woo woo in Mathematics – mathematical platonism, mathematical idealism, cantorian multiple infinities, many worlds, proof being positiva rather than negativa, the terms, labels, and symbolism all create nonsense.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-24 03:15:21 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1165100255014248448

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    More evidence that mathematicians can be stupid, too https://t.co/yzrDpx0vAW

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1165027124782092289

  • AHMED REDA SAYS IT BEST —“A Propertarian is expected to (and must) use Mathema

    AHMED REDA SAYS IT BEST

    —“A Propertarian is expected to (and must) use Mathematics (as a universal language of measurement), Science (as a universal language of testimony), Law and… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=453296508600578&id=100017606988153

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-23 11:22:51 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1164860547613024256

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