Curt Doolittle

Category: Epistemology and Method

  • NO, PHILOSOPHY(CHOICE) IS SUBORDINATE TO SCIENCE (TRUTH) Again, economics and la

    NO, PHILOSOPHY(CHOICE) IS SUBORDINATE TO SCIENCE (TRUTH)

    Again, economics and law, defeat philosophy, religious tradition, and moral justificationism. Demonstrated vs Reported. Always and everywhere.

    —“Philosophy is more fundamental than economics. The notion of making choices, based on rewards and punishment, implies some form of ethics, which itself is a branch of philosophy. Economics is not a floating abstract, disconnected from ethics or philosophy.”— Mark Goodkin

    It’s actually just physics. Morality=reciprocity, an reciprocity is the only system of measurement a cooperative species can use and survive.

    Philosophy allows us to choose preferences, but truth and falsehood are in the domain of science.

    Historically this relationship was mistakenly reversed because it threatened the status quo. Philosophy(middle class) like religion (underclass) is just the record of dissatisfaction: opposition literature. The ruling class rules, and they rule by law, and law and economics require reciprocity to fund the requirements for maintaining power.

    Science has a great track record. Philosophy has very arguable (if not certainly) done more harm than good. And theology has certainly done more harm than all but malaria and the black plague.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-21 11:59:00 UTC

  • THE GRAMMAR OF PSEUDOSCIENCE (Sorry for interjecting on your post but it’s such

    THE GRAMMAR OF PSEUDOSCIENCE

    (Sorry for interjecting on your post but it’s such a great example of psychologism versus incentives, it’s hard to let the opportunity pass.)

    INTERSECTIONALITY: The study of intersections between forms or systems of oppression, domination or discrimination.

    Or in economics (real social science, not pseudoscience) we call it the study of formal and informal institutions, and the competition between heterogeneous interests, in markets for association, cooperation, reproduction, production, production of commons, production of polities, production of group evolutionary strategies.

    IDENTITY POLITICS: A tendency for people of a particular religion, race, social background, etc., to form exclusive political alliances, moving away from traditional broad-based party politics.

    Or in economics (real social science, not pseudoscience) we call it ‘kin selection’ and ‘rational self interest’ because the cost of in-group cooperation(opportunity) is lower and the return on in-group signaling higher. The long term consequences result either in small populations and nationalism or large populations and castes. This is because our biological differences are extraordinarily differentiating in all markets for cooperation.

    THE GRAMMAR OF INTELLECTUAL FRAUD

    If suggestion, loading and framing are present in a discourse then it’s not science, it’s pseudoscience. All human behavior is reducible to the same laws as that of the physical universe: defeat of entropy. Emotions are just our reward or punishment for success or failure in fulfillment of those laws. All speech is either descriptive (in economic terms) or coercive (in psychological terms). And therefore truthful or fraudulent.

    There are only three methods of organizing human beings (coercion). 1) Force, 2) Compensation, 3) Ostracization (guilt, shaming, rallying).

    Truth is the only reciprocal compensation among those choices. Everything else is ignorance, error, bias, deceit, fraud, or predation.

    Cheers

    -Curt.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-21 09:18:00 UTC

  • Debates are only as valuable as the intellectual ability and honesty of the peop

    Debates are only as valuable as the intellectual ability and honesty of the people debating.

    Conversations are better.

    In my experience arguments that consist of a series of steps rather than a simple contrast require writing.

    We can FEEL contrasts but we must REASON deductions.

    The reason we have difficulty with most big questions is that they must be reasoned not felt.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-21 07:26:00 UTC

  • No, Philosophy(choice) Is Subordinate to Science (truth)

    Again, economics and law, defeat philosophy, religious tradition, and moral justificationism. Demonstrated vs Reported. Always and everywhere. —“Philosophy is more fundamental than economics. The notion of making choices, based on rewards and punishment, implies some form of ethics, which itself is a branch of philosophy. Economics is not a floating abstract, disconnected from ethics or philosophy.”— Mark Goodkin It’s actually just physics. Morality=reciprocity, an reciprocity is the only system of measurement a cooperative species can use and survive. Philosophy allows us to choose preferences, but truth and falsehood are in the domain of science. Historically this relationship was mistakenly reversed because it threatened the status quo. Philosophy(middle class) like religion (underclass) is just the record of dissatisfaction: opposition literature. The ruling class rules, and they rule by law, and law and economics require reciprocity to fund the requirements for maintaining power. Science has a great track record. Philosophy has very arguable (if not certainly) done more harm than good. And theology has certainly done more harm than all but malaria and the black plague.
    May 21, 2018 11:59am

  • Dylan Thomas running a debate with Eli and Jared Howe, demonstrating (a) moderat

    Dylan Thomas running a debate with Eli and Jared Howe, demonstrating (a) moderators must in fact moderate, (b) moderators must ensure that speakers define their terms, (c) must expose the central argument, (d) be juridical in preventing people from circular arguments, circular definitions, failures to answer the central questions.

    Hence why I don’t waste my time with kiddies. At least academics, especially in the sciences, have to pass a dissertation committee that won’t tolerate such nonsense.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-20 21:22:00 UTC

  • “We need to crash the signal market”–Micah Pezdirtz Truth is enough

    —“We need to crash the signal market”–Micah Pezdirtz

    Truth is enough.

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

  • IS TESTIMONIALISM? New from a smart guy. lol (I promoted this via the Institute

    https://youtu.be/UMlRT-2LU1gWHAT IS TESTIMONIALISM?

    New from a smart guy. lol

    (I promoted this via the Institute over FB)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-19 18:37:00 UTC

  • How do I disagree? How can I disagree with what I don’t know?

    How do I disagree? How can I disagree with what I don’t know?

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-18 19:03:18 UTC

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  • by Bill Joslin Operational language couples context to content by how that conte

    by Bill Joslin

    Operational language couples context to content by how that content can exist in reality.

    For example within language – nouns provide identity, and verbs provide action properties to nouns (verbs describe state).

    In spoken language we can say “the dog flew off the dock into the ocean”.

    But, dogs don’t fly.

    We conflate the existential properties of birds (flying animals) with the properties dogs (nonflying animals).

    Of course this allows us to color (load) to our speech acts, but this demonstrates conflation from one existential context to another, and then the audience uses culture and norms fill in the gap with “not literally flew – but rather travels very fast” – a substitution of the ‘poetic’ (conflationary) with the ‘descriptive’ (deflationary).

    In engineering grammars (in this case mathematical formula and scientific laws) we constrain usage to only that which is possible existentially possible.

    For example you could not use formula which maps electrical activity to calculate drag coefficients of an aircraft. It simply wouldn’t make sense. The inputs don’t correspond to the argument’s of that equation.

    When we think this through a little bit more, means-of-measurement couple grammars (the language), in for example aircraft design, to reality. The inputs to discover a drag coefficient pertains to the geometry of the air surface, where as the inputs for electrical calculation pertain to voltages and amperes etc.

    The mathematical equations express the operations (verbs), the measurement captures the properties (adverb, adjectives) which the operations depend. The start and end points of calculation express the identity(nouns) and change of state it undergoes.

    Operationalism in spoken language provides a consistent “measurement”: Commensurability with reality.

    The commensurability (measuring across disparate objects) across contexts, which we must choose and couple to our content, forces us to think about the relationship between properties, actions, identity and the result,. If done well, this provides a means of measurement within that domain.

    Reciprocity as a means of measuring morality, property as a means of measuring impositions and gain, agency etc.

    This cultivates clarity of thought and provides decidibility for those who can and are willing to invest in it’s habituation

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-18 08:52:00 UTC

  • without commensurable categories you can literally make a sensible argument for

    without commensurable categories you can literally make a sensible argument for anything. Thats’ why Pllpul worked, and why it spread to christian theology, then to continental philosophy, and now to marxism-postmodernism.

    Grammars matter.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-18 01:27:04 UTC

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