Curt Doolittle

Category: Epistemology and Method

  • 3) Where those justificationary deceits include: appeal to reasonableness, appea

    3) Where those justificationary deceits include: appeal to reasonableness, appeal to consideration, appeal to empathy, appeal to optimistic outcomes, with loading, framing, selectivity, suggestion, obscurantism, overloading, propaganda, and The Fictionalisms.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-01 18:21:17 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1002616085953343489

    Reply addressees: @Meaningness

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/993602725316186112

    IN REPLY TO:

    @Meaningness

    Definition of “rationalism” from the Eggplant book draft.

    If you identify as a rationalist, I’m curious whether you find this accurate, and if not, why not? https://t.co/2cvo7478fj

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/993602725316186112

  • 2) Once you see Pilpul and Critique as techniques you’ll understand we now need

    2) Once you see Pilpul and Critique as techniques you’ll understand we now need a third defense against falsehood: 1) Cognitive Biases, 2) Rhetorical Fallacies, 3) Justificationary Deceits. …

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-01 18:20:25 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1002615869174927360

    Reply addressees: @Meaningness

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/993602725316186112

    IN REPLY TO:

    @Meaningness

    Definition of “rationalism” from the Eggplant book draft.

    If you identify as a rationalist, I’m curious whether you find this accurate, and if not, why not? https://t.co/2cvo7478fj

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/993602725316186112

  • 1) You know, I specialize in the methods of deception, particularly by moral app

    1) You know, I specialize in the methods of deception, particularly by moral appeal and hazard:
    (a) Abrahamism: Pilpul via-positiva (Excuse) vs Critique via-negativa (Ridicule)
    – vs –
    (b) Aryanism: Law via-positiva (“I May”) vs Science via-Negativa (Survival from testing)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-01 18:20:02 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1002615772596834312

    Reply addressees: @Meaningness

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/993602725316186112

    IN REPLY TO:

    @Meaningness

    Definition of “rationalism” from the Eggplant book draft.

    If you identify as a rationalist, I’m curious whether you find this accurate, and if not, why not? https://t.co/2cvo7478fj

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/993602725316186112

  • Rationalism = Excuse. Falsificationism = Necessity

    Rationalism = Excuse.
    Falsificationism = Necessity

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-01 18:13:11 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1002614046703702017

    Reply addressees: @Meaningness

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/993602725316186112

    IN REPLY TO:

    @Meaningness

    Definition of “rationalism” from the Eggplant book draft.

    If you identify as a rationalist, I’m curious whether you find this accurate, and if not, why not? https://t.co/2cvo7478fj

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/993602725316186112

  • Rationalism = Excuse. Falsificationism = Necessity 1) You know, I specialize in

    Rationalism = Excuse. Falsificationism = Necessity

    1) You know, I specialize in the methods of deception, particularly by moral appeal and hazard:

    (a) Abrahamism: Pilpul via-positiva (Excuse) vs Critique via-negativa (Ridicule)

    – vs –

    (b) Aryanism: Law via-positiva (“I May”) vs Science via-Negativa (Survival from testing)

    2) Once you see Pilpul and Critique as techniques you’ll understand we now need a third defense against falsehood: 1) Cognitive Biases, 2) Rhetorical Fallacies, 3) Justificationary Deceits. …

    3) Where those justificationary deceits include: appeal to reasonableness, appeal to consideration, appeal to empathy, appeal to optimistic outcomes, with loading, framing, selectivity, suggestion, obscurantism, overloading, propaganda, and The Fictionalisms.

    4) What can I warranty ethics (Militia Ethics), vs what can I make excuses for (Ghetto ethics).

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-01 14:24:00 UTC

  • Scientists, Engineers, and Software folk tend to understand better propertariani

    Scientists, Engineers, and Software folk tend to understand better propertarianism because they have been analytically framed – they have trained themselves to divorce subjective and moral value from truth propositions.

    The problem with literary and philosophical (and continental especially) readers is that they have trained themselves to preserve subjective or moral value to reason.

    Given that most philosophy (other than logic, law, and science) consists of fantasy moral literature (secular theology) as either a form of escapism, or means of rallying against the status quo (power), this subjective(personal) and moral (interpersonal) framing is understandable.

    The truth is we live under scientists, jurists, philosophers, and theologians. And the competition between them serves the distribution of abilities at the cost of competition over decidability (truth), when the only difference philosophy and theology can provide is choice of the preferable and the good – not decidability. Hence why I think the law must be inviolate so that choice of preference and good is not conflated with the decidability of truth, and such that false arguments can no longer be made.

    Why? Because false arguments to the preferable and the good (and the true for that matter) are just acts of fraud to escape voluntary exchange or obtain exchange at an unwarranted discount.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-01 10:07:00 UTC

  • IS AGENCY? (DEFINING AGENCY) (repost) Agency, like Knowledge, and Truth Proper,

    https://propertarianism.com/2017/12/05/whats-the-definition-of-agency-as-you-use-it/https://propertarianism.com/2017/12/05/whats-the-definition-of-agency-as-you-use-it/WHAT IS AGENCY? (DEFINING AGENCY)

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    Agency, like Knowledge, and Truth Proper, and the speed of light, is something we seek more and more of but cannot ever perfectly attain – unless we in fact become gods.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-31 20:51:00 UTC

  • IS AGENCY? (DEFINING AGENCY) (repost) Agency, like Knowledge, and Truth Proper,

    https://propertarianism.com/2017/12/05/whats-the-definition-of-agency-as-you-use-it/WHAT IS AGENCY? (DEFINING AGENCY)

    (repost)

    Agency, like Knowledge, and Truth Proper, and the speed of light, is something we seek more and more of but cannot ever perfectly attain – unless we in fact become gods.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-31 20:51:00 UTC

  • Once You See It You Can’t Unsee It

    1 ) Via Positiva vs Via Negativa 2 ) Additive vs Subtractive 3 ) Reason vs Science 4 ) Logic vs Correspondence 5 ) Rationalism vs Empiricism 6 ) Justification vs Falsification 7 ) (((Pilpul vs Critique))) 8 ) (((Marxism))) vs Postmodernism 9 ) (((Abrahamism))) vs Natural Law 10) Conflation vs Deconflation 11) Ambiguation vs Disambiguation It’s: Pilpul Via-Positiva Justification (deception) -vs- Critique via Negativa Falsification (deception). The invention of lying through loading, framing, overloading, and suggestion under cover of appeals to reasonableness, rather than Truth.

  • Once You See It You Can’t Unsee It

    1 ) Via Positiva vs Via Negativa 2 ) Additive vs Subtractive 3 ) Reason vs Science 4 ) Logic vs Correspondence 5 ) Rationalism vs Empiricism 6 ) Justification vs Falsification 7 ) (((Pilpul vs Critique))) 8 ) (((Marxism))) vs Postmodernism 9 ) (((Abrahamism))) vs Natural Law 10) Conflation vs Deconflation 11) Ambiguation vs Disambiguation It’s: Pilpul Via-Positiva Justification (deception) -vs- Critique via Negativa Falsification (deception). The invention of lying through loading, framing, overloading, and suggestion under cover of appeals to reasonableness, rather than Truth.