Curt Doolittle

Category: Epistemology and Method

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1551463260 Timestamp) The truth is always anti-something or other. Otherwise we wouldn’t need it.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1551463260 Timestamp) The truth is always anti-something or other. Otherwise we wouldn’t need it.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1551632981 Timestamp) —“I think as ideas increase in complexity to the level of P we broadly get 3 categories. 1) People who get it and can expand and expound upon it. 2) people who get it and can spread and promote it. 3) People who can intuit that it is right and truthful and take orders. 4) People that follow their friends or leaders in 3. Do you bear this in mind at different stages of your marketing so to speak as P grows and adjust language and talking points accordingly?”. — Gunther T. Exactly. My job is 1 (130+), John’s job is 2(115+), and; Our audience is 3(100+), and; The rest 4 follow 3 (100-) #post

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1551572497 Timestamp) NO MORE LIES —“@Curt Doolittle If I have an idea, a theory, yet don’t have the evidence yet–it still might be true. The Higgs Boson comes to mind. It was an idea, a theory, there were no facts yet to prove it, it fit in with the standard model, itself a theory, and solved some problems in quantum mechanics, but it wasn’t until the particle was actually discovered by the LHC that we could call it true. So was it a lie before then? You can’t always exactly know what’s true. Some questions are unsettled. So we make assumptions to try things out. It’s not exactly faith but it’s like it. It requires that we temporarily believe in it to test it, to question it, to try and figure it out. All part of reasoning. Maybe you didn’t mean what you said to this depth, what you wrote seems to make perfect sense on the surface, but through a little questioning, seeking to drill down, to get to the essence and the fundamentals of things, it seemed to me to be a little imprecise. This is not to simply be disputatious, to be contrary, not to be mean or anything, your statement was a fine, stimulating, sentiment, but to honestly question.​”— Mark Wright We do not have faith or temporarily believe in anything. We seek only to discover by testing that which is testable. And we limit ourselves to that limit. 1) such things are testable and falsifiable. 2) such things preserve the parsimony of naturalism, 3) such things are not counter to all of historical evidence, nor commensurate with the long history of ignorance error, fraud, and deceit
    4) such things serve as no premise for consequent inference likewise for fraud and deceit, 5) such things are not dependent on verbal pretense or sophism, 6) such things are not claimed true only speculative,
    7) such things have no malincentive to lie, or preserve a lie.
    8) Conversely what i argued against was the opposite of all those tests. It is not arrogance but intolerance for the continued use of lies against my people by those in conscious or unconscious league with the ancient enemy of not only my people but all of mankind. No more lies. #post

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1551633978 Timestamp) STOICISM, PROPERTARIANISM, ECONOMICS, HISTORY ARE THE BEST WE CAN DO. There will always be hyper conservatives, sophists, pseudoscientists, supernaturalists on the right. There will always be hedonists (hyper consumption), sophists, pseudoscientist and occultists on the left. The best we can do is provide education in mindfulness, propertarianism, history to reduce their numbers Stoicism => Self Propertarianism => Others Economics => Polities History => Mankind. #post

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1551572497 Timestamp) NO MORE LIES —“@Curt Doolittle If I have an idea, a theory, yet don’t have the evidence yet–it still might be true. The Higgs Boson comes to mind. It was an idea, a theory, there were no facts yet to prove it, it fit in with the standard model, itself a theory, and solved some problems in quantum mechanics, but it wasn’t until the particle was actually discovered by the LHC that we could call it true. So was it a lie before then? You can’t always exactly know what’s true. Some questions are unsettled. So we make assumptions to try things out. It’s not exactly faith but it’s like it. It requires that we temporarily believe in it to test it, to question it, to try and figure it out. All part of reasoning. Maybe you didn’t mean what you said to this depth, what you wrote seems to make perfect sense on the surface, but through a little questioning, seeking to drill down, to get to the essence and the fundamentals of things, it seemed to me to be a little imprecise. This is not to simply be disputatious, to be contrary, not to be mean or anything, your statement was a fine, stimulating, sentiment, but to honestly question.​”— Mark Wright We do not have faith or temporarily believe in anything. We seek only to discover by testing that which is testable. And we limit ourselves to that limit. 1) such things are testable and falsifiable. 2) such things preserve the parsimony of naturalism, 3) such things are not counter to all of historical evidence, nor commensurate with the long history of ignorance error, fraud, and deceit
    4) such things serve as no premise for consequent inference likewise for fraud and deceit, 5) such things are not dependent on verbal pretense or sophism, 6) such things are not claimed true only speculative,
    7) such things have no malincentive to lie, or preserve a lie.
    8) Conversely what i argued against was the opposite of all those tests. It is not arrogance but intolerance for the continued use of lies against my people by those in conscious or unconscious league with the ancient enemy of not only my people but all of mankind. No more lies. #post

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1551633978 Timestamp) STOICISM, PROPERTARIANISM, ECONOMICS, HISTORY ARE THE BEST WE CAN DO. There will always be hyper conservatives, sophists, pseudoscientists, supernaturalists on the right. There will always be hedonists (hyper consumption), sophists, pseudoscientist and occultists on the left. The best we can do is provide education in mindfulness, propertarianism, history to reduce their numbers Stoicism => Self Propertarianism => Others Economics => Polities History => Mankind. #post

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1551714534 Timestamp) TRIVIUM > QUADRIVIUM > PHILOSOPHY Trivium: The Word. Grammar (Primary School – repetition), Logic (Middle School – understanding ), Rhetoric (high school – argument) -vs- Quadrivium: The Number. Arithmetic(The Number), Geometry(The Number in Space), Music(in Time) and Astronomy(Motion(Space and Time)) -vs- Philosophy: The Idea TODAY IMO Propertarianism completes Philosophy with Grammars (Metaphysics), Acquisitionism (Psychology), Compatibilism (Sociology), Propertarianism(Ethics), Natural Law (Politics), adds Group Strategy, and articulates Aesthetics. Between the logic of the grammars, the logic of numbers, and the logic of cooperation (P), we have completed the systems of calculation available to the human mind. THE EDUCATION IN THE SKILLS OF THINKING Together, the trivium and the quadrivium comprised the seven liberal arts (based on thinking skills), as distinguished from the practical arts (such as medicine and architecture). Educationally, the trivium and the quadrivium imparted to the student the seven liberal arts (essential thinking skills) of classical antiquity. THE TRIVIUM Grammar teaches the mechanics of language to the student. This is the step where the student “comes to terms,” defining the objects and information perceived by the five senses. Hence, the Law of Identity: a tree is a tree, and not a cat. Logic (also dialectic) is the “mechanics” of thought and of analysis, the process of identifying fallacious arguments and statements and so systematically removing contradictions, thereby producing factual knowledge that can be trusted. Rhetoric is the application of language in order to instruct and to persuade the listener and the reader. It is the knowledge (grammar) now understood (logic) and being transmitted outwards as wisdom (rhetoric). THE QUADRIVIUM The quadrivium (plural: quadrivia ) is the four subjects, or arts (namely arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy), taught after teaching the trivium. The quadrivium consisted of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. These followed the preparatory work of the trivium, consisting of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. The quadrivium was the upper division of the medieval education in the liberal arts, which comprised arithmetic (number), geometry (number in space), music (number in time), and astronomy (number in space and time). PHILOSOPHY In turn, the quadrivium was considered the foundation for the study of philosophy (sometimes called the “liberal art par excellence”) and theology.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1551714534 Timestamp) TRIVIUM > QUADRIVIUM > PHILOSOPHY Trivium: The Word. Grammar (Primary School – repetition), Logic (Middle School – understanding ), Rhetoric (high school – argument) -vs- Quadrivium: The Number. Arithmetic(The Number), Geometry(The Number in Space), Music(in Time) and Astronomy(Motion(Space and Time)) -vs- Philosophy: The Idea TODAY IMO Propertarianism completes Philosophy with Grammars (Metaphysics), Acquisitionism (Psychology), Compatibilism (Sociology), Propertarianism(Ethics), Natural Law (Politics), adds Group Strategy, and articulates Aesthetics. Between the logic of the grammars, the logic of numbers, and the logic of cooperation (P), we have completed the systems of calculation available to the human mind. THE EDUCATION IN THE SKILLS OF THINKING Together, the trivium and the quadrivium comprised the seven liberal arts (based on thinking skills), as distinguished from the practical arts (such as medicine and architecture). Educationally, the trivium and the quadrivium imparted to the student the seven liberal arts (essential thinking skills) of classical antiquity. THE TRIVIUM Grammar teaches the mechanics of language to the student. This is the step where the student “comes to terms,” defining the objects and information perceived by the five senses. Hence, the Law of Identity: a tree is a tree, and not a cat. Logic (also dialectic) is the “mechanics” of thought and of analysis, the process of identifying fallacious arguments and statements and so systematically removing contradictions, thereby producing factual knowledge that can be trusted. Rhetoric is the application of language in order to instruct and to persuade the listener and the reader. It is the knowledge (grammar) now understood (logic) and being transmitted outwards as wisdom (rhetoric). THE QUADRIVIUM The quadrivium (plural: quadrivia ) is the four subjects, or arts (namely arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy), taught after teaching the trivium. The quadrivium consisted of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. These followed the preparatory work of the trivium, consisting of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. The quadrivium was the upper division of the medieval education in the liberal arts, which comprised arithmetic (number), geometry (number in space), music (number in time), and astronomy (number in space and time). PHILOSOPHY In turn, the quadrivium was considered the foundation for the study of philosophy (sometimes called the “liberal art par excellence”) and theology.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1551882156 Timestamp) Note to self: Epistemology Mathiness (‘proof’) b/c Scale Ind. It Works: Justification b/c human scale Science: falsification b/c beyond human scale It’s Philosophers were “Fooled by Mathiness”. Mathematics = scale independent measurement (Position) All else is scale dependent measurement, using measurement system available to man: human operations and analogy to operations we can experience.