Curt Doolittle

Category: Epistemology and Method

  • THE IMPORTANCE OF P-LAW UNAMBIGUITY The set of criteria for testifiable prose is

    THE IMPORTANCE OF P-LAW UNAMBIGUITY
    The set of criteria for testifiable prose is designed to create a form of communication that is, above all, unambiguous. By requiring complete sentences in promissory and testimonial form, using operational vocabulary, avoiding the verb “to be,” and including all relevant changes in state and their consequences, testifiable prose eliminates the potential for multiple interpretations or misunderstandings.

    This unambiguity is crucial for converting ordinary language, which is often riddled with vagueness and ambiguity, into precise systems of measurement. By ensuring that each statement or claim is clear, specific, and unambiguous, testifiable prose allows for the creation of a common language that can be used to accurately describe, analyze, and compare various phenomena or ideas.

    Moreover, the unambiguity of testifiable prose plays a vital role in suppressing errors and deceits that can arise from deduction, inference, abduction, and analogy. When language is ambiguous or open to multiple interpretations, it becomes easier for fallacious arguments or misleading conclusions to take hold. By contrast, the strict criteria of testifiable prose make it much more difficult for such errors and deceits to go unnoticed or unchallenged.

    In addition to promoting clarity, objectivity, actionable content, comprehensiveness, testability, logical consistency, accessibility, reproducibility, and providing a foundation for further analysis, the unambiguity achieved through testifiable prose is perhaps its most significant benefit. It enables more precise communication, reduces the potential for misunderstandings or misinterpretations, and helps to create a shared understanding of the subject matter at hand.

    Source date (UTC): 2024-03-08 00:42:52 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1765900960574943232

  • OPERATIONAL PROSE ABSENT THE VERB TO-BE (repost) Operational prose that avoids t

    OPERATIONAL PROSE ABSENT THE VERB TO-BE
    (repost)
    Operational prose that avoids the verb “to be” in its various forms (is, are, was, were, etc.) and constructs complete sentences can significantly reduce the occurrence of vague, ambiguous, and evasive language. This style of writing emphasizes action, clarity, and directness, impacting the use of weasel words, passive voice, and other evasive strategies in several ways:

    Reduces Weasel Words and Vagueness: By focusing on concrete actions rather than abstract states of being, operational prose makes it harder to use weasel words that lack specificity. Statements must be tied to specific actions, actors, and outcomes, which naturally demands more precision and clarity.

    Eliminates Passive Voice: Without the verb “to be,” the passive construction becomes nearly impossible to use. This forces the writer to specify the subject performing an action, thereby increasing accountability and transparency in the prose.

    Limits Hedging and Ambiguity: Operational prose, by its nature, requires that statements be tied to clear and verifiable actions or outcomes. This makes it more difficult to hedge or be ambiguous, as each sentence must convey a specific action or result that can be measured or observed.

    Discourages Nominalizations: Operational prose encourages the use of active verbs, reducing the tendency to turn verbs into nouns (nominalizations), which often make sentences more abstract and less clear.

    Focuses on Specific Actions Over Generalizations: By emphasizing actions over states, operational prose avoids broad, untestable claims, focusing instead on specific, demonstrable activities or achievements.

    Minimizes Jargon and Bureaucratese: While not directly tied to the exclusion of the verb “to be,” operational prose’s emphasis on clarity and action can also help minimize the use of unnecessary jargon and bureaucratese, which often obscure meaning.

    Operational prose encourages a more direct, action-oriented style of writing that is inherently clearer and more specific. This style naturally mitigates the use of linguistic strategies designed to obscure, evade, or inflate, promoting instead a form of communication that is more straightforward and easier to verify or challenge.

    Source date (UTC): 2024-03-07 23:16:46 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1765879292523667456

  • DISAMBIGUATION, OPERATIONALIZATION, SERIALIZATION (Repost) “Disambiguation, Oper

    DISAMBIGUATION, OPERATIONALIZATION, SERIALIZATION
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    “Disambiguation, Operationalization, Serialization,”

    What the heck does that mean?

    serialize: to arrange (something) in a series.
    series: a number of things, events, or people of a similar kind or related nature coming one after another.

    From “Disambiguation by serialization by constant relation, and operationalization.”

    The constant relation (falsehood, epistemology, morality)

    The serialization: ignorance > error > bias > wishful thinking…

    Where operationalization means converting into a series of subjectively testable human actions thereby producing measurements given the marginal indifference in human action.

    So where |falsehood| is a monodirectional series, |epistemology| is monodirectional loop, and |MORAL| is bidirectional from the center ‘amoral’.
    This process requires we collect all synonyms and antonyms, organize them by some constant relation into a series of less or more of that constant relation.

    Why?

    All words (nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs) are constructed of dimensions (scales, series of measurements), open to sense, perception, emotion, or action.

    In most cases the human sense perception spectrum appears to produce no more than five degrees of difference for any measurement, such as “distant past, past, recent past, now.” And there are a number of reasons for this – which is why you can only visualize so many of the same things, remember so many numbers or terms, or discern so many directions etc.

    In general terms our universe is triangular bias left, forward, bias right, which is our direction of motion. This is also the minimum and maximum necessary decision criteria.

    If I go deeper it will get too complicated.

    So, by disambiguation by inventorying, operationalizing, serializing into sequences we create unambiguous measurements for language that prohibit conflation and ambiguity and therefore errors of inference and deduction, effectively turning language – especially language like english with so many terms – into a system of measurement.

    By combining this technique of very specific terms (measurements), using operational language that is testable, in promissory form (I Promise that…), absent verb-to-be (meaning “I dunno the condition of existence”) in complete sentences, of complete transactions of changes in state, we convert language to a via-negativa equivalent of a via-positiva programming language with the same test of possibility (compilability) since the ability to compile is a test of disambiguity (yes that’s the secret sauce).

    By using supply demand tests of statements rather than ideals we end up with the formal economics of human behavior.

    For example, decidability = demand for infallibility in the context in question.

    Source date (UTC): 2024-03-07 23:11:57 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1765878079040131072

  • P-Law for Dummies (repost) Learn the dimensions of consistency necessary for cla

    P-Law for Dummies
    (repost)

    Learn the dimensions of consistency necessary for claims one has performed the due diligence against ignorance, error, bias, and deceit that are necessary for claims of testimonial truth: categorical(identity), logical(internally consistent), operational (operationally possible), empirical (correspondent), rational(choice), reciprocal (moral) consistency, limits, completeness, and coherence.

    Learn how to disambiguate by operationalization and serialization of terms into series (types) so that conflation and subsequent errors and deceits of conflation and inference are impossible. This will unite the different fields into a common vocabulary.

    Learn how to write in complete, promissory, operational vocabulary, free of the verb to be (eliminate pretense of knowledge) – this will unite the fields into a common grammar.

    Write definitions in that operational vocabulary and grammar that describe man and mankind from the individual to the species to prevent misrepresentation.

    Take the natural law of tort (demonstrated interest), the demand for reciprocity as a test of decidability in matters of conflict (productive, fully informed, voluntary transfer, free of negative externality, warrantied, and within limits of restitution possible by the actors.)

    Write all constitution, legislation, regulation, and finding of the courts in this language, grammar, and programmatic structure

    Restate the constitution, and in particular the bill of rights in these strictly constructed terms, closed to arbitrary interpretation, to fully enumerate all rights, obligations, and inalienability of those rights and obligations.

    Expand the law of fraud from commercial speech to political (and academic) speech, in public, in matters public, to the public, and grant universal standing in matters of the commons. (Reduce the barrier to class actions against false, and irreciprocal speech

    Plug the primary hole in western law of tort that was exploited during the twentieth century: Criminalize baiting into hazard using false and unwarrantable promise. The effect of this will be to suppress lying by the state, the financial sector, the commercial sector, the media, the academy,

    Restore universal applicability so that those issuing legislation, regulation, and findings of the court, are liable for their actions, prohibiting violation of the constitution and strict construction.

    Require the court assent all legislation and regulation. Provide means by which the undecidable is returned to the legislature for settlement – rather than the court.

    This sequence will outlaw the entire postwar attempt to reverse the Darwinian revolution that explained, and justified western civilizations’ thousands of years of self domestication with criteria for reproduction, and aggressive hanging of criminals, dragging mankind out of ignorance, superstition, poverty, hard labor, starvation, disease, and the vicissitudes of nature by the false promises of french socialism, german secular theology, jewish marxism, neo-marxism, postmodernism, feminism, and human-biodiversity-denialism, that are positioned as a war against european supremacy – but is nothing more than the attempt to end the reason for the west (and east asia’s) success: Self domestication through negative eugenics (limiting underclass reproduction and survival) are more important than even education and literacy and the primary diver for raising mankind to its current condition.

    The anti-semitism in Propertarianism is not a genetic criticism, but anti-abrahamic: the use of the abrahamic method of deceit that institutionalized as a group strategy the female means of warfare by undermining from within by the fomentation of conflict between men. Judaism, christianity, and islam, in the old world, and marxism(class warfare to undermine formal institutions), postmodernism (social construction to undermine soft institutions), feminism (to undermine familial institutions), and human science denialism (to undermine the optimum group strategy of ethnocentrism for developing high trust, high investment commons, and high redistribution).

    —“I categorize P as describing the intellectual foundations of western civilization that the populists are currently demanding, but don’t know how to express in rational and scientific terms.”—

    P-law completes the scientific method as one of due diligence; completes the darwinian revolution of decision by competition in evolution; and unites the physical, cognitive, psychological, social, political and economic sciences into one discipline: testimony by realism, naturalism, operationalism, empiricism, rational choice, reciprocity, within limits, completeness, and restitutability.

    This is why we think y’all (Critics) are rather dimwits.
    You latch onto what you grasp.
    You do not seek to understand.
    And in doing so maintain ignorance and immorality and the destruction of western civlization and its benefits to mankind, out of your own laziness and arrogance.

    P completes the Aristotelian project.

    Doolittle is not special. Like Aristotle, Smith, Hume, and Darwin, he is just living at a point in time where cognitive science, Turing’s revolution, economics, and evidence of the past century have combined with the internet’s discount on the acquisition and access to research publications, making possible the completion of the synthesis of disciplines to reform the laws we live under such that we prevent another semitic dark age brought about by the the most advanced system of deception invented by man: the weaponization and institutionalization of the female means of undermining by false promise (seduction) from within.

    Source date (UTC): 2024-03-07 23:10:30 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1765877715096182785

  • The First Step in The P-Methodology: “Types” (repost) [T]he first step in P-Logi

    The First Step in The P-Methodology: “Types”
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    [T]he first step in P-Logic is creating Types. Not Ideal Types. Not ideals. Not an archetypes, not an average, not a set, but a scale: an ORDERED list, hierarchy, or map to use as a system of measurement.

    A type is a category whose members varies by one or more of the same properties – one ore more ‘constant relations’.

    We do this by a process called “Disambiguation by serialization and operationalization“. Our goal is to create a system of measurement for any concept.

    The process is relatively simple.

    1) Pick a term. In this example I’l use moral.

    2) Collect all related terms, synonyms and antonyms (3 minimum, 5 better)

    … Habits, manners ethics morals, traditions, laws, good, bad, right, wrong.

    3) Organized them in a sequence (x) from less to more, more to less, or neutral to more and less. Add a second dimension on an orthogonal scale for opposing dimensions ( y ) and another orthogonal (z) after which you’re no longer simplifying anyone’s understanding, so convert, or hierarchy or map or however you want to organize them. Most of the time we keep to simple lists, or sets of simple lists for different degrees of abstraction, or to illustrate different constant relations.

    Right / Wrong is a true or false. We use it as an analogy for moral.
    Good / Bad is a judgment or preference. We use it as an analogy for moral.

    We confuse ethical and moral. Ethical has a more precise meaning, which is an interpersonal action where we abuse the asymmetry of information. Moral is a looser term. It means actions that indirectly and anonymously force others to pay a cost. Manners are something we demonstrate immediately and are testable on the evidence alone.

    So I’m going to choose to organize them by :
    … Norms: Habits > Manners > Ethics > Morals
    and
    … Cultural Regulations: Traditions > Norms > Findngs of Court > Regulations > Legislations(Laws) > Constitutions

    Or

    I could organize all of them by severity of violation:
    … Rules: habits > traditions > manners > morals > ethics > laws

    Or

    I could organize them by moral spectrum:
    … Evil< Immoral< unethical< bad < amoral > good > ethical >moral >Virtuous

    And I could stack them so that the moral spectrum was in the middle, the leal spectrum above, and the normative spectrum below and show how all of these terms are related.

    4) Next Define, Modify Definitions, Redefine, or create New Definitions so that each term in the sequence is unambiguous with every other term. In this case it’s only necessary to disambiguate moral an ethical which we did above.

    5) Convert those definitions to Operational Langauge in complete sentences absent the Verb To Be. We’ll study this a bit later. It’s ‘work’ that like mathematics or programming, you only internalize by practice.

    6) Use the Precise Term. When you use a term from the sequence, use the most precise one.

    7) Enumerate and Repeat the Series. When you are educating people, don’t pick an ideal term, but enumerate the series like this “Well that’s avoiding the externalization of an indirect cost, so that would be Moral (as in manners(direct demonstrated) > ethics(direct asymmetric) > morals(indirect anonymous) > laws(institutional)) and that’s a good thing.”

    Results: You will have converted from a colloquial associative vocabulary to a formal vocabulary of measurement. If you do this with a few dozen terms (it’s not that many) you’ll be surprised how precise you’re able to communicate your meaning . And the more you do it the more you’ll think in types (sequences).

    But caution: Now we don’t need to speak in formal operational langauge but just as we can diagram sentences, we can ‘explode’ (or expand) anything anyone says into promissory, complete, formal operational sentences that are the equivalent of testable transactions. And we can break stories into sets of transactions, or accmulate transactions into stories.

    So use the right too for the right purpose:
    … ideomatic speech > colloqual speech > articulate speech > testimonial speech

    Propertarianism teaches us testimonial speech.

    SOME BASIC TYPES:

    … |RULES| habits > traditions > manners > morals > ethics > laws

    …|FACULTIES| Physical > Emotional > Mental

    …|COGNITION| Sense > Auto-Association > Model > Perception > Prediction > Imagination > Emotion > Attention > Focus > Daydream > Think > Reason > Calculation > Computation

    SEX DIFFERENCES IN EXTREMES
    Female <———Ascendant Male —> Established Male
    Socialist…………………….Libertarian…………………Conservative
    Empathic ………………….Pragmatic…………………….Analytic
    Undermining …..Non-Conforming……….Violent, Criminal
    Social Predator …… Intellectual ……Physical Predator

    COMPARE:
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    Data Domain (Computer Science – Databases)
    In data management and database analysis, a data domain is the collection of values that a data element may contain. The rule for determining the domain boundary may be as simple as a data type with an enumerated list of values. For example, a database table that has information about people, with one record per person, might have a “gender” column.

    Type (Computer Science)
    The specification of a set of operations that may be performed on a variable (“name”). Types formalize and enforce the otherwise implicit properties of classes.

    Type System (Mathematics)
    a type system is a formal system in which every term has a “type” which defines its meaning and the operations that may be performed on it.

    Ideal Type (Social Science)
    An Ideal Type is a concept constructed by a social scientist on the basis of his interests and theoretical orientation, to capture the essential features of some social phenomenon. The Ideal type, one of the most important concepts of Weber represents the logical conclusion of several tendencies of Weberian thought.

    Category vs Type
    A Type is a N to 1 relationship (a thing can be of only one Type) and Category is a M to N relationship (a thing can fit into many categories at the same time). Category fits to a family of different things, while type refers to the actual fact that something exists as being of this type.

    Type
    a person or thing symbolizing or exemplifying the ideal or defining characteristics of something.
    synonyms:
    (What we DON”T use) epitome · quintessence · essence · perfect example · archetype · exemplar · embodiment · personification · avatar · · prototype

    (What we DO use): model · pattern · paradigm
    Category
    a class or division of people or things regarded as having particular shared characteristics.
    The Techniques

    The Operational Model of the Brain: brain, mind, consiiousness, agency.
    The Grammars. Language, Logics, Paradigms, Periodic Table of Speech
    Disambiguation by Serialization and Operationalization

    Operationalization by Expanding sentences into Operational language

    Acquisitionism, Property in Toto, and the Economics of Human Behavior

    Ethics: Decidability, Reciprocity, and Testimony

    Crime: Crimes, Frauds, and Deciets,
    Prosecution (falsification, or ‘Testing’)
    Algorithmic Natural Law (construction) and Applications
    Law and Constitutions (Programmatic Natural law), and Incremental Suppression
    Institutions, Comparative Rule, Government, Economics, Education, Religion, Family, Demographics, and
    Compartive Group Strategies

    Source date (UTC): 2024-03-07 23:07:26 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1765876944095096834

  • (repost) —“Hi Curt, I am greatly intrigued by the submissions in support of your

    (repost)
    —“Hi Curt, I am greatly intrigued by the submissions in support of your work. If you don’t mind, could you kindly illuminate as to the central thesis of this ISM.”—

    [I]n simple terms, it is the completion of the Aristotelian project, by expanding Aristotelian realism, naturalism, and empiricism from the (easy) physical sciences to the (harder) cognitive, psychological, and social sciences by the addition of the grammars (language, metaphysics), operationalism and reciprocity, which we learned in the 20th and 21st century. In modern terms it would mean the completion of the scientific method.

    CENTRAL THESIS:

    1) The human grammatical facility consists of continuous recursive disambiguation. We construct meaning, transfer meaning, then falsify meaning against error, in iterations.

    All knowledge evolves by the same method:

    Stimulus (observation > auto-association > model > prediction > intuition > valuation) > FreeAssociation (Test by reason) > Hypothesis (test by logic) > Theory (test by action) > Convention (Test by Adversarialism – Survival in the market for Application)

    2) All language consists of measurements that are precise, sufficient, and true, or imprecise, insufficient, and false.

    3) Those measurements consist of combinations of human faculties: a) sensation, b) perception, c) intuition, d) reason-calculation-computation, e) action. And we can, and have, disassembled all language into those dimensions. And those dimensions are limited. And they also include limited precision (ex: always has been, has been for some time, just has been, is being, just will be, will be for some time, always as been.)

    3) We can deflate all language into pure measurements (mathematics), or inflate language into narrations, or inflate language into deceptions: a) loading, framing, obscuring, suggesting, b) fictions c) sophistry->idealism spectrum, d) magic->pseudoscience spectrum, and d) occult->supernatural spectrum. We reorganize the definition of language to refer to each of these as grammars that include permissible dimensions and the logics possible within those permissible dimensions.

    4) Because of this, we can create a most parsimonious, universally commensurable, value-neutral language across all fields, by conversion of all speech regardless of dimension into measurements using human faculties, in promissory form, in complete sentences, absent the word to be, from an observer’s point of view, in operational language, consisting of a complete list of complete changes in state.

    5) We can create a checklist of due diligences to test this value neutral universal language for those dimensions of constant relations (logical consistency) possible for humans: identity, logical, empirical, operational, rational, reciprocal, limited, fully accounted within those limits, and if it passes those tests it is not false. Then we must ask if it is sufficient to meet the demand for infallibility for the question at hand, and with in the limits of liability if we err.

    6) This resulting language and method looks a great deal like writing contract law in programming language for very good reasons that are probably obvious: operational logic of actions (engineering) versus set logic of language (scripture, law, text). Far greater precision and far greater exposure of false claims due to ignorance.

    7) We can write constitutions and laws in this language that prevent the use of every possible method of deceit, and therefore extend our law from defense of physical property to defense of information itself. The idea being that we can end immoral and false commercial, academic, and political speech (where religious speech is also political), so that the people are not constantly lied to by everyone.

    The result? Eradication of deceit from the informational commons. Resulting in Trust, Personal, Social, economic, political velocity resulting in prosperity (and greater equality).

    SECONDLY

    It explains the ((())) method of destroying civilizations from within by fomenting hatred using the female technique of undermining false promise baiting into hazard, under plausible deniability and freedom from liability.

    In this case it is to blame white people for adapting to the physical, natural, and evolutionary laws of the universe, which by design ends their ability to operate as an organized crime family.

    It also explains the success of marxism, neo-marxism, postmodernism, feminism, human difference denialism, political correctness, and shouting down – destruction of harmony of european peoples.

    Source date (UTC): 2024-03-07 23:03:57 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1765876067967909889

  • RT @Psyche_OS: Truth to a human is like garlic to a vampire

    RT @Psyche_OS: Truth to a human is like garlic to a vampire.

    Source date (UTC): 2024-03-05 22:04:01 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1765136209699848217

  • The complexity of a referent can be measured by the information necessary to des

    The complexity of a referent can be measured by the information necessary to describe it’s causality unambiguously (completely).

    Source date (UTC): 2024-03-04 22:29:11 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1764780156181270608

  • Definition: Irony (eye’-ruhn-ee) When there’s a significant gap between what is

    Definition:
    Irony (eye’-ruhn-ee)
    When there’s a significant gap between what is expected or intended and what occurs, what is said and what is meant, or what is understood by different parties.

    I frequently use the term in the context of “painful illustration of the tendency for human folly.” It’s a very smug form of humor. 😉

    When I studied writing in college my work was both criticized and complimented for consisting of ‘extended irony’…. which is, well, probably how I see the world: almost entirely constituted of children running with scissors. 😉

    Elitist prick yes. But I work for my people not against them. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2024-03-04 18:40:42 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1764722655213563904

  • To self: New Year. I wanted to know. I do. That is enough. Truth is not a matter

    To self: New Year. I wanted to know. I do. That is enough. Truth is not a matter of agreement or consent. It s not a matter of popularity or acceptance. It is merely greater correspondence than all known alternatives. That is all. And that is all it can be. The rest is vanity. And truth has no place for vanity.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-31 17:01:00 UTC