Category: Epistemology and Method

  • Their Method of Argument…

    [I] have (((Their))) Method of Argument down in form. James has it down in stages of argument and counter-argument. We just need to educate everyone on it. Then we need to educate everyone that the only reason to NOT engage in ‘warfare’ and instead in debate, is if we are actually debating in order to determine a trade when we don’t agree, or a good, when we do. Then we need to engage in ‘War’ often enough that we suppress the ‘poisoning of the well’.

  • BAD SPEECH IS CHEAPER THAN GOOD SPEECH Only an equalitarian would ignore costs –

    BAD SPEECH IS CHEAPER THAN GOOD SPEECH
    Only an equalitarian would ignore costs – as usual.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-04 14:32:29 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1059091016664395777

  • Post Formatting and Syntax

    “CURT: WHAT DOES YOUR |?????| >>> SYNTAX MEAN?”

    —“Can you help me understand the syntax you use? What does the vertical bar ” | ” mean? And this ” > “?”— Eric Grose

    Great Question: | DIMENSION | start limit > step > step > step > end limit. Where >, <, <-, and ->, state the direction. So you will see me use < < <, or > > >, or < < <- center -> > > depending upon the direction. It’s a “Dimension” definition, meaning an ordered range of values that are permissible for use in a property of a Class (definition). It defines the LIMITS (start and end) and COMPLETENESS (range of values), in PARSIMONIOUS FORM, thereby satisfying Testimonialism’s demand for both LIMITS and FULL ACCOUNTING for any warranty of due diligence against ignorance, error, bias, and deceit. Given a Class (Table), consisting of (a) Properties(Attributes) and their Values (data), (b) Relations (references), and (c) Methods (internal operations), and (d) functions (external operations), a Dimension provides the range of values permissible for a property. It’ is a geometric (linear, serialize) method of defining a dimension (table of values). So we convert: |TEACHING| Reading to > Lecturing > Socratic Teaching > Running a grad seminar > Running an MBA/Law course (case studies) > Running a Competitive Game > Military Training. Into: Define TEACHING: id: int, str: category. Insert TEACHING: | TEACHING | 1, Reading to 2, Lecturing 3, Socratic Teaching 4, Running a grad seminar 5, Running an MBA/Law course (case studies) 6, Running a Competitive Game 7, Military Training (a tiny bit of the relational calculus) WHY? Because the grammars allow us to produce an N-Dimensional geometry of ‘meaning’. But that is not something I am going to put into this series of the work. It’s like putting equations in to it. So I’m using the Series instead. OK? Cheers

  • Post Formatting and Syntax

    “CURT: WHAT DOES YOUR |?????| >>> SYNTAX MEAN?”

    —“Can you help me understand the syntax you use? What does the vertical bar ” | ” mean? And this ” > “?”— Eric Grose

    Great Question: | DIMENSION | start limit > step > step > step > end limit. Where >, <, <-, and ->, state the direction. So you will see me use < < <, or > > >, or < < <- center -> > > depending upon the direction. It’s a “Dimension” definition, meaning an ordered range of values that are permissible for use in a property of a Class (definition). It defines the LIMITS (start and end) and COMPLETENESS (range of values), in PARSIMONIOUS FORM, thereby satisfying Testimonialism’s demand for both LIMITS and FULL ACCOUNTING for any warranty of due diligence against ignorance, error, bias, and deceit. Given a Class (Table), consisting of (a) Properties(Attributes) and their Values (data), (b) Relations (references), and (c) Methods (internal operations), and (d) functions (external operations), a Dimension provides the range of values permissible for a property. It’ is a geometric (linear, serialize) method of defining a dimension (table of values). So we convert: |TEACHING| Reading to > Lecturing > Socratic Teaching > Running a grad seminar > Running an MBA/Law course (case studies) > Running a Competitive Game > Military Training. Into: Define TEACHING: id: int, str: category. Insert TEACHING: | TEACHING | 1, Reading to 2, Lecturing 3, Socratic Teaching 4, Running a grad seminar 5, Running an MBA/Law course (case studies) 6, Running a Competitive Game 7, Military Training (a tiny bit of the relational calculus) WHY? Because the grammars allow us to produce an N-Dimensional geometry of ‘meaning’. But that is not something I am going to put into this series of the work. It’s like putting equations in to it. So I’m using the Series instead. OK? Cheers

  • “CURT: PLEASE DEFINE ‘DEFLATIONARY GRAMMAR’?”– Search and ye shall find: proper

    –“CURT: PLEASE DEFINE ‘DEFLATIONARY GRAMMAR’?”– Search and ye shall find:  propertarianism.com/2018/03/16/11386/

  • Do You Know The Difference?

    Religion Vs Ideology Vs Philosophy Vs Logic Vs Mathematics Vs Science A RELIGION consists of any set of ideas of justification which require belief in, testimony to, or action according to, one or more falsehoods as a cost of inclusion and use. AN IDEOLOGY consist of any set of ideas that agitate, motivate, or inspire achievement of political ends under majoritarian (monopoly) democracy. An ideology need not be internally consistent externally correspondent, or existentially possible. It need only motivate individuals to act in furtherance of policy. A PHILOSOPHY consists of any set of internally consistent ideas of decidability which justify pursuit of personal preferences or group goods. A LOGIC consists of any deflationary grammar of decidability that assists in the falsification by competition of one or more constant relations between states. (Note that one proves nothing logically other than internal consistency, because all premises of external correspondence are forever contingent.) MATHEMATICS consists of a deflationary grammar of decidability consisting of competition between positional names under the preservation of ratios providing a single axis of decidability: position – but in N dimensions; thereby providing commensurability between any set of positional relations of any number of dimensions. A SCIENCE consists of any set of ideas that provide decidability independent of personal preference or group goods, by the systematic elimination of ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, fictionalism, and deceit, by the use of measurement and record of actions – demonstrations versus words. NATURAL LAW of RECIPROCITY (Tort), was produced scientifically (empirically) by trial and error, through the resolution of disputes across personal preferences, group goods, norms, traditions, and intuitions, cumulating always and everywhere that decidability is provided by property, and property consists in the demonstrated investment of human action or inaction anything whether genetic, material, behavioral, or informational.

  • “CURT: PLEASE DEFINE ‘DEFLATIONARY GRAMMAR’?”– Search and ye shall find: proper

    –“CURT: PLEASE DEFINE ‘DEFLATIONARY GRAMMAR’?”– Search and ye shall find:  propertarianism.com/2018/03/16/11386/

  • Do You Know The Difference?

    Religion Vs Ideology Vs Philosophy Vs Logic Vs Mathematics Vs Science A RELIGION consists of any set of ideas of justification which require belief in, testimony to, or action according to, one or more falsehoods as a cost of inclusion and use. AN IDEOLOGY consist of any set of ideas that agitate, motivate, or inspire achievement of political ends under majoritarian (monopoly) democracy. An ideology need not be internally consistent externally correspondent, or existentially possible. It need only motivate individuals to act in furtherance of policy. A PHILOSOPHY consists of any set of internally consistent ideas of decidability which justify pursuit of personal preferences or group goods. A LOGIC consists of any deflationary grammar of decidability that assists in the falsification by competition of one or more constant relations between states. (Note that one proves nothing logically other than internal consistency, because all premises of external correspondence are forever contingent.) MATHEMATICS consists of a deflationary grammar of decidability consisting of competition between positional names under the preservation of ratios providing a single axis of decidability: position – but in N dimensions; thereby providing commensurability between any set of positional relations of any number of dimensions. A SCIENCE consists of any set of ideas that provide decidability independent of personal preference or group goods, by the systematic elimination of ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, fictionalism, and deceit, by the use of measurement and record of actions – demonstrations versus words. NATURAL LAW of RECIPROCITY (Tort), was produced scientifically (empirically) by trial and error, through the resolution of disputes across personal preferences, group goods, norms, traditions, and intuitions, cumulating always and everywhere that decidability is provided by property, and property consists in the demonstrated investment of human action or inaction anything whether genetic, material, behavioral, or informational.

  • “Have you read Robert D. Kaplan’s “warrior politics” legitimizing the doctrine o

    —“Have you read Robert D. Kaplan’s “warrior politics” legitimizing the doctrine of preemptive strikes….?”—

    Legitimacy is a nonsense word. It means precisely nothing. The application of military violence is not a moral but practical question. We tell weak women and men it is moral – to quiet their inner child.

    As I posted earlier, both Sun Tzu, and Machiavelli wrote treatise to re-educate us to be hunters and warriors once we have fallen under the ‘moral spell’ of urban life.

    I read most of Kaplan’s writings, but this one was unnecessary. It’s obvious. An attempt to educate the overly domesticated polity no longer capable of rational choice.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-03 16:52:00 UTC

  • PLEASE DEFINE ‘DEFLATIONARY GRAMMAR’?”

    https://propertarianism.com/2018/03/16/11386/–“CURT: PLEASE DEFINE ‘DEFLATIONARY GRAMMAR’?”–


    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-03 16:47:00 UTC