Curt Doolittle

Category: Epistemology and Method

  • 19 – You on the other hand, criticize him for pseudoscience but you rely not upo

    19 – You on the other hand, criticize him for pseudoscience but you rely not upon science (dimensional falsification through measurement and exposition in operational language), but upon pseudo-rationalism : critique (gossip, shaming, rallying). The very technique he illustrates.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-12 12:33:42 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/973175197296615424

    Reply addressees: @nathancofnas

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/972432694675058688

    IN REPLY TO:

    @nathancofnas

    My analysis of Kevin MacDonald’s pseudoscience: https://t.co/eRfp6B8g0e

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/972432694675058688

  • 18 – Pseudoscience, Pseudo-rationalism, and Pseudo-historicism (the debunking of

    18 – Pseudoscience, Pseudo-rationalism, and Pseudo-historicism (the debunking of which is my occupation) are called ‘Fictionalisms’. Pseudoscience requires that one claim he relies on the scientific method, while not employing its constraints. He does not do that.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-12 12:31:18 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/973174593258246150

    Reply addressees: @nathancofnas

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/972432694675058688

    IN REPLY TO:

    @nathancofnas

    My analysis of Kevin MacDonald’s pseudoscience: https://t.co/eRfp6B8g0e

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/972432694675058688

  • 17 – one can make excuses for anything. That is the whole point of the study of

    17 – one can make excuses for anything. That is the whole point of the study of intellectual history. We don’t invent philosophy first. We discover opportunities for individual, familial, class, and group gain – and make excuses for seizing them with moralizing and mythos.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-12 12:27:43 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/973173691008856064

    Reply addressees: @nathancofnas

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/972432694675058688

    IN REPLY TO:

    @nathancofnas

    My analysis of Kevin MacDonald’s pseudoscience: https://t.co/eRfp6B8g0e

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/972432694675058688

  • TRUTH HAS ONLY ONE POSSIBLE MEANING There is only one possible meaning of truth:

    TRUTH HAS ONLY ONE POSSIBLE MEANING

    There is only one possible meaning of truth: the spectrum honesty(unwarranted) > testimony(warranted) > most parsimonious operational name(unwarrantable). Conflating the preferable, the good, the decidable, the true, is just a means of lying – it is merely a sophisticated method by which to employ an appeal to authority by platonic means. It’s an excuse for self congratulatory fraud.

    People will make excuses.

    They favor their excuses.

    They disfavor the excuses of others.

    That’s why we have courts, science, and measurement – to decide independent of excuses.

    We need only incrementally improve the courts so that we suppress excuses just as we have every other form of violence, theft, and fraud.

    NO MORE LIES, NO MORE FRAUD, NO MORE PRETENSE.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-12 08:57:00 UTC

  • Truth Has Only One Possible Meaning

    There is only one possible meaning of truth: the spectrum honesty(unwarranted) > testimony(warranted) > most parsimonious operational name(unwarrantable). Conflating the preferable, the good, the decidable, the true, is just a means of lying – it is merely a sophisticated method by which to employ an appeal to authority by platonic means. It’s an excuse for self congratulatory fraud. People will make excuses. They favor their excuses. They disfavor the excuses of others. That’s why we have courts, science, and measurement – to decide independent of excuses. We need only incrementally improve the courts so that we suppress excuses just as we have every other form of violence, theft, and fraud. NO MORE LIES, NO MORE FRAUD, NO MORE PRETENSE.

  • Truth Has Only One Possible Meaning

    There is only one possible meaning of truth: the spectrum honesty(unwarranted) > testimony(warranted) > most parsimonious operational name(unwarrantable). Conflating the preferable, the good, the decidable, the true, is just a means of lying – it is merely a sophisticated method by which to employ an appeal to authority by platonic means. It’s an excuse for self congratulatory fraud. People will make excuses. They favor their excuses. They disfavor the excuses of others. That’s why we have courts, science, and measurement – to decide independent of excuses. We need only incrementally improve the courts so that we suppress excuses just as we have every other form of violence, theft, and fraud. NO MORE LIES, NO MORE FRAUD, NO MORE PRETENSE.

  • IF VIA POSITIVA WORKED, WE WOULD HAVE WON ALREADY We teach many counter-intuitiv

    IF VIA POSITIVA WORKED, WE WOULD HAVE WON ALREADY

    We teach many counter-intuitive things precisely because the value of deflation prevents errors as much as empowers better comparisons.

    We need parables (fairy tales), novels, and histories.

    Math, reading, grammar, and now economics – every form of measurement.

    If via positiva worked, then we would have won already.

    Lies are cheaper than truths. But Fictions cheaper than descriptions. That is why they win.

    Meaning tells you nothing other than confirmation of your existing understanding. Truth is created by falsifying alternatives that compete with it.

    Everything else is just the coincidence of wants between the preacher and the choir.

    There are many churches.

    There is one science.

    And that science is possible because of one law:

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-11 17:50:00 UTC

  • “Philosophical language then is a dead language, and perhaps an immoral one – an

    —“Philosophical language then is a dead language, and perhaps an immoral one – and rationalism a dead technology. And they will be incrementally combined institutionally and normatively into theology, with Literary Philosophy(Plato and his heirs), merely representing it’s position on the spectrum of Aristotelian/Stoic/Roman/English Law (science), Confucian Reason, French Literary Idealism, Platonic Rational Idealism, Continental and Augustinian Fictionalism, and Abrahamic and Zoroastrian Fictionalism.”—

    ie: there aren’t any.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-11 17:50:00 UTC

  • If Via Positiva Worked, We Would Have Won Already

    We teach many counter-intuitive things precisely because the value of deflation prevents errors as much as empowers better comparisons. We need parables (fairy tales), novels, and histories. Math, reading, grammar, and now economics – every form of measurement. If via positiva worked, then we would have won already. Lies are cheaper than truths. But Fictions cheaper than descriptions. That is why they win. Meaning tells you nothing other than confirmation of your existing understanding. Truth is created by falsifying alternatives that compete with it. Everything else is just the coincidence of wants between the preacher and the choir. There are many churches. There is one science. And that science is possible because of one law:

  • If Via Positiva Worked, We Would Have Won Already

    We teach many counter-intuitive things precisely because the value of deflation prevents errors as much as empowers better comparisons. We need parables (fairy tales), novels, and histories. Math, reading, grammar, and now economics – every form of measurement. If via positiva worked, then we would have won already. Lies are cheaper than truths. But Fictions cheaper than descriptions. That is why they win. Meaning tells you nothing other than confirmation of your existing understanding. Truth is created by falsifying alternatives that compete with it. Everything else is just the coincidence of wants between the preacher and the choir. There are many churches. There is one science. And that science is possible because of one law: