Category: Epistemology and Method

  • NOPE NOPE —“Curt: What would (….) in a propertarian society?”— PROP IS A M

    NOPE NOPE

    —“Curt: What would (….) in a propertarian society?”—

    PROP IS A METHOD.

    Propertarianism is a methodology, consisting of a set of methodologies, a set of definitions, and a set of arguments, that produce a commensurable language, complete the scientific method, and embody that scientific method into rule of law.

    What you do with that law is wide open – it just has to be transparent, and it will prohibit all sorts of lying in public about whatever order you have.

    P-law is extremely facist out of the box – it is extremely nationalistic, and extremely intolerant, and especially intolerant of our ancient enemy’s means of deceit. And It is very hard to engage in malfeasance under P-Law since it is simply too profitable for individuals to report criminals for fun and profit. It is a ruthless system of government for enemies of the productive people. It has no mercy for enemies foreign or domestic.

    FOR MY PEOPLE

    My focus has been on correcting the United states first, and the other european states second.

    I recommend, for my people, and my people alone, because my people alone appear capable of it:

    0 – An independent judiciary of the natural law

    1 – A militia of all able bodied men in the regimental model, attached to a ‘church’/’school’. A standing army of professional warriors, and citizen employees of the military who are inducted in emergencies, since an increasing scope of military work is technical and administrative.

    2 – A Hereditary Monarchy with a professional cabinet

    3 – Virtual Houses of Governors, Industry, Business, Labor, and Family(homeowners). Where house members are selected randomly from the population, to provide assent or dissent to proposals by the monarchy in the raising and use of taxes. And where all houses must ‘pass’ (ascend).

    4 – A near prohibition on bureaucracy; all government service “at the pleasure of the monarchy”; and a prohibition on pensions for public servants.

    5 – My understanding is that this would provide all the benefits of fascism without the need for a dictator-character and the attendant risk. Even then, there is no reason a monarch cannot appoint such a person as did the romans, in times of crisis or need.

    FLIPPED INCENTIVES

    This produces a very different set of incentives since everyone is always and everywhere accountable for everything.

    MIDDLE CLASS IS HARD TO BEAT

    Monarchies appear to run better governments until they cannot. They cannot when the commercial complexity reaches the point of choosing limited investments from a host of possible investments. In this case the middle class appears to do well UNTIL they start socializing losses and privatizing the commons or engaging in arbitrage against the long term interests of the people.

    FEDERATION

    Any number of these monarchies can be federated under a supreme court of the natural law, just as the church federated the monarchies under church ‘license’ – the principle value of the court and the church being the ‘delegitimization’ of a ruler or a government, there by sanctioning the people and neighbors to replace that ruler, in the european tradition. This would, I expect, be rare, since royal families are extremely intolerant of family members who risk their status – and often make them ‘disappear’.

    My preference (Fantasy) would be to restore the anglo empire, and the germanic (Holy roman) empire, and to complete the intermarium and end the conflict of the 20th century brought about by ((())) the enemies of our people under the banner of world communism and the destruction of our peoples.

    FOR OTHER PEOPLES

    For other peoples I recommend a flexible system of government not terribly different from the Roman and English:

    – Fascism (Generalship) for time of war or conflict.

    – Monarchies with professional cabinets as long as possible

    – Adding Houses of government as via negativa juries when too large. These juries must only approve/deny raising of funds by the monarchy (cabinet).

    – If for some reason some semblance of democracy is necessary (it isn’t, but it may be impossible to avoid it for pragmatic reasons) I recommend virtual houses for each of the classes and genders, where classes trade in a market rather than pass legislation by majority rule. Where resources are either equally or proportionally distributed. Then posting proposals for x months, then using a lottery (Greece) rather than politicians to select the juries (houses), then allowing the juries to conduct business (trade)

    In other words, there is no ‘propertarian society’ per se other than all those societies run under rule of law by natural law.

    So….

    You can ask me questions of natural law – ‘what would the law say about ????’

    You can ask me about different political orders: “what order, or what would you recommend for ????”

    You can ask me what constitution I’d recommend for america or germany, or england or poland etc. “what would you recommend for????”

    You can ask me what I’ve put in the working constitution.

    As long as they are under natural law they are ‘propertarian’.

    If they are not then they are not.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-03-07 21:06:00 UTC

  • “TESTIMONIALISM ROCKS!!!” —“Curt: The moment she said “…the thing in itself”

    “TESTIMONIALISM ROCKS!!!”

    —“Curt: The moment she said “…the thing in itself”, my mind directly answered “can u testify for that thing in itself of yours”.

    And the answers surely would be no.

    And if she tried to then she will be bringing, or applying a monopoly demand for consent of the rationalization she will be making, ie, deceit.

    Testimonialism ROCKS.”— Deus Ex


    Source date (UTC): 2019-03-07 12:18:00 UTC

  • Note to self: Epistemology Mathiness (‘proof’) b/c Scale Ind. It Works: Justific

    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.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-03-06 09:22:00 UTC

  • TRIVIUM > QUADRIVIUM > PHILOSOPHY Trivium: The Word. Grammar (Primary School – r

    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.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-03-04 10:48:00 UTC

  • STOICISM, PROPERTARIANISM, ECONOMICS, HISTORY ARE THE BEST WE CAN DO. There will

    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


    Source date (UTC): 2019-03-03 12:26:00 UTC

  • “I think as ideas increase in complexity to the level of P we broadly get 3 cate

    —“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


    Source date (UTC): 2019-03-03 12:09:00 UTC

  • NO MORE LIES —“@Curt Doolittle If I have an idea, a theory, yet don’t have the

    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


    Source date (UTC): 2019-03-02 19:21:00 UTC

  • The truth is always anti-something or other. Otherwise we wouldn’t need it

    The truth is always
    anti-something or other.
    Otherwise we wouldn’t need it.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-03-01 18:01:19 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1101542949131677696

  • Small sample. Questionable sample. Questionable test method. Question set provok

    Small sample. Questionable sample. Questionable test method. Question set provokes confirmation. No “skin in the game” questions.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-03-01 13:14:18 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1101470718460596224

    Reply addressees: @DegenRolf

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1101094793176858624


    IN REPLY TO:

    @DegenRolf

    Higher intelligence does not provide the slightest protection against susceptibility to foolish beliefs.
    https://t.co/4qsZvTItD2 https://t.co/amvCX1KQB7

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1101094793176858624

  • The truth is always anti-something or other. Otherwise we wouldn’t need it

    The truth is always

    anti-something or other.

    Otherwise we wouldn’t need it.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-03-01 13:01:00 UTC