Curt Doolittle

Category: Epistemology and Method

  • The Competition Between Positiva and Negativa

    Logics are deflationary grammars so that we can test ourselves. They are very limited languages with very strict grammars and semantics. They serve as means of falsification. Stories allow us to search for opportunities. Via-positiva stories (meaning) vs via-negativa logics (falsification) and the truth is what survives the competition.

  • The Number of Worthless Opinions Has No Bearing

    I mean, I don’t put much weight behind the opinions of riders of the intellectual short bus. Opinions don’t matter. Arguments do. And in argument, moralistic, rationalistic, and pseudoscientific don’t matter. Either a critic can make a testimonial (ratio-operational-scientific) argument or one can’t. Most likely a critic can’t make even a trivial one. That’s before we even get to whether he can make one that’s meaningful. We are creatures of habits, and our arguments consist largely of a string of habits. And our impression or pretense of understanding is a false reward to keep us thinking and acting under an illusion of competence despite the evidence to the contrary. There are many dehmanizing truths in intellectual history and the degree to which few humans possess material (marginally different) agency is terrifyingly small. We are well trained apes and while sentience and consciousness exist in almost all of us, agency is still a rarity.

  • The Number of Worthless Opinions Has No Bearing

    I mean, I don’t put much weight behind the opinions of riders of the intellectual short bus. Opinions don’t matter. Arguments do. And in argument, moralistic, rationalistic, and pseudoscientific don’t matter. Either a critic can make a testimonial (ratio-operational-scientific) argument or one can’t. Most likely a critic can’t make even a trivial one. That’s before we even get to whether he can make one that’s meaningful. We are creatures of habits, and our arguments consist largely of a string of habits. And our impression or pretense of understanding is a false reward to keep us thinking and acting under an illusion of competence despite the evidence to the contrary. There are many dehmanizing truths in intellectual history and the degree to which few humans possess material (marginally different) agency is terrifyingly small. We are well trained apes and while sentience and consciousness exist in almost all of us, agency is still a rarity.

  • Imprecision, suggestion, and demand for substitution create the impression of co

    Imprecision, suggestion, and demand for substitution create the impression of consensus where there is none. If you can’t state something operationally so that it is testable, then you either don’t know what you’re talking about or are engaged in abrahamic sophisms.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-17 12:34:13 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1008326950304342017

  • (This is where I got the insight into grammars from)

    (This is where I got the insight into grammars from)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-17 09:40:00 UTC

  • THE GRAMMARS

    THE GRAMMARS

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-17 09:28:00 UTC

  • MISUSE OF GRAMMARS (FRAUDS)

    MISUSE OF GRAMMARS (FRAUDS)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-17 09:28:00 UTC

  • THE DEFLATIONARY GRAMMARS —“Perception -> deconflation -> finding a unit of me

    THE DEFLATIONARY GRAMMARS

    —“Perception -> deconflation -> finding a unit of measure -> finding commensurability. Breakthroughs occur when commensurability between disparate domains are discovered, which then gives rise to better measures. Discovering the common relation reveals commensurable measure. Operational epistemology focusses on relations as primary and identity/domains as secondary (or contingent).”—Bill Joslin

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-17 09:26:00 UTC

  • Imprecision, suggestion, and demand for substitution create the impression of co

    Imprecision, suggestion, and demand for substitution create the impression of consensus where there is none. If you can’t state something operationally so that it is testable, then you either don’t know what you’re talking about or are engaged in abrahamic sophisms.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-17 08:34:00 UTC

  • THE NUMBER OF WORTHLESS OPINIONS HAS NO BEARING I mean, I don’t put much weight

    THE NUMBER OF WORTHLESS OPINIONS HAS NO BEARING

    I mean, I don’t put much weight behind the opinions of riders of the intellectual short bus. Opinions don’t matter. Arguments do. And in argument, moralistic, rationalistic, and pseudoscientific don’t matter. Either a critic can make a testimonial (ratio-operational-scientific) argument or one can’t. Most likely a critic can’t make even a trivial one. That’s before we even get to whether he can make one that’s meaningful.

    We are creatures of habits, and our arguments consist largely of a string of habits. And our impression or pretense of understanding is a false reward to keep us thinking and acting under an illusion of competence despite the evidence to the contrary.

    There are many dehmanizing truths in intellectual history and the degree to which few humans possess material (marginally different) agency is terrifyingly small.

    We are well trained apes and while sentience and consciousness exist in almost all of us, agency is still a rarity.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-17 08:08:00 UTC