(FB 1543084404 Timestamp) I use a large vocabulary, but the number of definitions-in-series I rely upon is far smaller than it appears. Memorizing them is not all that difficult. It’s understanding how to use them in argument without relying on your past ‘fuzzy use of terms’ that’s hard.
Category: Epistemology and Method
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543082573 Timestamp) Seriously. I mean. You don’t really ‘get it’ until you practice it a bit. But most of the problem with argument is lacking definitions. And only definitions in series eliminate conflation and therefore the misrepresentation of meaning.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543164537 Timestamp) TRUTH IS ENOUGH —If the price of your participation is perpetuation of semitic deceits then you can’t function as a judge. You are of no use to me.— …
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543163428 Timestamp) Truth is enough. If you can’t handle the truth – I understand. But enough of us can. We are enough.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543154384 Timestamp) TRUTH IS ENOUGH Truth is truth. Lies are lies. We can produce all behavioral goods truthfully. So there is no reason to produce behavioral goods untruthfully. Period. Fitness achievable. Mindfulness is achievable. Reason (Calculation) Achievable. Knowledge achievable. Skill Achievable. And Law, Morals, Ethics, Manners, and Norms Achievable. All without lies. It may require the liar generations to die off. But generations can be taught mindfulness. End the lies and end ALL the abrahamic death cults, whether ancient (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) or modern (Marxism, Postmodernism, Feminism, Islamism). How to rule: Authority(martial class), Oligarchy(Professional class), Liberalism(Middle class), or Social Democracy(lower class) is a matter of utility (from stress to plenty), or ability (low trust to high trust), but not of possibility. And the liars (priests, public intellectuals[sophists], pseudoscientists, and advertisers (snake oil salesmen), are forever silenced and driven like all previous generations of thieves into productive labors in the markets.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543084404 Timestamp) I use a large vocabulary, but the number of definitions-in-series I rely upon is far smaller than it appears. Memorizing them is not all that difficult. It’s understanding how to use them in argument without relying on your past ‘fuzzy use of terms’ that’s hard.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543082573 Timestamp) Seriously. I mean. You don’t really ‘get it’ until you practice it a bit. But most of the problem with argument is lacking definitions. And only definitions in series eliminate conflation and therefore the misrepresentation of meaning.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543191724 Timestamp) —“…Have you considered debating Curt Doolittle?”— I don’t waste time on the Three Great Fictionalisms of (a) faith (supernaturalism), (b) sophism (idealism) (c) pseudoscience, and I don’t make pragmatic excuses for them either. I spend my time on Education, Literature, History, Economics, Law, Science, Logics, and Mathematics. (not worth my time)
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543191724 Timestamp) —“…Have you considered debating Curt Doolittle?”— I don’t waste time on the Three Great Fictionalisms of (a) faith (supernaturalism), (b) sophism (idealism) (c) pseudoscience, and I don’t make pragmatic excuses for them either. I spend my time on Education, Literature, History, Economics, Law, Science, Logics, and Mathematics. (not worth my time)
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Curt Doolittle wrote on Bill Joslin’s timeline.
(FB 1543418287 Timestamp) THE UNIQUENESS OF THE GRAMMARS by Bill Joslin (new, important idea) The development of various grammars of disambiguation defines the uniqueness of the west. A culture of martial raiders requires explicit technologies for maintain peaceful coexistence among dangerous people, as well as requires truthful reporting of battle situations for raiding to be successful. This leads to social value on truth – truthful reporting (reliability) and honest interactions to prevent in-group conflict (honesty). The result being the innovation of OATH (proto-contract) and competency (meritocracy). This I see as the initial step (or early) step toward disambiguation. Disambiguation of reporting on intention and ability. Incremental stages of growth for European peoples can be seen as the progress of disambiguation. Common law : Disambiguation of accountability and disambiguation of reciprocal consequences (punishment fit the crime) Contract: Disambiguation of terms of agreement and limits to commitment (Trade) Institutionalization of Law : Disambiguation of the application of power over a polis i.e. rule (isolation of discretionary rule) Science: disambiguation of external causal relations (Propertarianism – disambiguation of human action and human conflict) Disambiguation provides a commensurable measure in evaluating “western identity” for what belongs or doesn’t belong, or what needs to be corrected and how. So when Abrahamists conflate religion and western civilization (christianity, Jewish contribution, secular islam), or Aesthetics (spiritualists) propose that aesthetics undergirds civilization, or linguists propose language as the means to calculate power and distribution (GA) etc… all while stating they are “for the west”, I get confused and a bit uppity. Introduction of ambiguity is not what we do – its what we’ve been taught by those who’d see us gone or enslaved.