(FB 1550511589 Timestamp) HISTORY VS LITERATURE Don’t confuse literature with history. History consists of demonstrated preference (records), Literature consists of narration. The written record is propaganda with a grain of truth. The demonstrated preference record is truth with a grain of propaganda.
Category: Epistemology and Method
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1550506002 Timestamp) TRUTH OVER POPULARITY Aristotle was not the founder of our system of thought because he was popular. They tried to kill him like socrates. Hobbes, Lock, Smith, Hume were not popular on the continent – everything written on the continent since their publications has been a rebellion against it. Darwin was not popular with many if not most. There are many who would have killed him. Truth is what it is. A WEAPON
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1550505170 Timestamp) That which we can observe through instrumental and logical means That which we can observe That which we can experience That which we can deduce from experience That which we cannot experience (lack of introspection)
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1550511589 Timestamp) HISTORY VS LITERATURE Don’t confuse literature with history. History consists of demonstrated preference (records), Literature consists of narration. The written record is propaganda with a grain of truth. The demonstrated preference record is truth with a grain of propaganda.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1550627670 Timestamp) —“Q: 5 +1 * 10 = ?”— This category of math ‘tests’, is not a test of intelligence but of a weakness in mathematical grammar that makes the reader fall back to the order of operations when the sentence is malformed. The correct form is (1×10)+5. or 5+(1×10), gracefully failing to 5 + 1 * 10 if malformed. Almost seemingly complex questions of philosophy are nothing more than a failure to fully expand idiomatic speech into well formed sentence beginning with “I promise that …”. The lower your patterning the more likely you are to see this trick. The higher your patterning (not discreetly seeing the individual glyphs of the text) the more likely you are to miss it. And that is all. Tricks don’t test intelligence. They insult it.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1550594667 Timestamp) Propertarianism is calculable (possible by humans) but not computable (possible by machines) where calculation consist of transformation of inputs into outputs by means that are subjectively testable (unlimited), open to deduction, inference, and recursion, and computation is the transformation of inputs into outputs given the internal limits of comparison of the computational grammar.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1550589901 Timestamp) MORE ON METAPHYSICS ….the idea of ‘proven’ is something I think is meaningless – instead: “remove all reasonable doubt”. Because nothing can be ‘proven’ other than tautologies because nothing is premise-independent other than tautologies. Therefore as far as I know, the question is only one of reasonable doubt. And given that only demonstrated preference shows us what one in fact ‘believes’ rather than ‘signals’ including ‘signaling to the self’, only tests of action with skin in the game tell us – even if we desperately want to be honest – what is in fact ‘true’. Ergo, as far as I know, there is only one physics, and one metaphysics (most parsimonious paradigm) and many false physics(paradigms) and many false metaphysics (paradigms) we can use to describe the physical. And the only metaphysics we can determine we are not signaling (lying) to ourselves and others about is that of ACTION. All else is fiction. Anyway. That’s my understanding.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1550627670 Timestamp) —“Q: 5 +1 * 10 = ?”— This category of math ‘tests’, is not a test of intelligence but of a weakness in mathematical grammar that makes the reader fall back to the order of operations when the sentence is malformed. The correct form is (1×10)+5. or 5+(1×10), gracefully failing to 5 + 1 * 10 if malformed. Almost seemingly complex questions of philosophy are nothing more than a failure to fully expand idiomatic speech into well formed sentence beginning with “I promise that …”. The lower your patterning the more likely you are to see this trick. The higher your patterning (not discreetly seeing the individual glyphs of the text) the more likely you are to miss it. And that is all. Tricks don’t test intelligence. They insult it.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1550597106 Timestamp) What I learned from chatting with Chris Cantwell is to start top down instead of bottom up.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1550594667 Timestamp) Propertarianism is calculable (possible by humans) but not computable (possible by machines) where calculation consist of transformation of inputs into outputs by means that are subjectively testable (unlimited), open to deduction, inference, and recursion, and computation is the transformation of inputs into outputs given the internal limits of comparison of the computational grammar.