Curt Doolittle

Category: Epistemology and Method

  • “Keep Ignorance Private.”—Ulysses Aaron Cartwright

    —“Keep Ignorance Private.”—Ulysses Aaron Cartwright

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-29 23:47:00 UTC

  • I don’t call people names. I simply state existential facts. if they apply that

    I don’t call people names. I simply state existential facts. if they apply that is what it is. (The mirror always lies)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-29 21:26:04 UTC

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  • Telos=Decidability

    Telos=Decidability

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-29 20:29:00 UTC

  • TERMINOLOGY (DEFINITIONS) Fungible = identically (functionally) substitutable. S

    TERMINOLOGY (DEFINITIONS)

    Fungible = identically (functionally) substitutable.

    Substitutable = functionally substitutable.

    Non-substitutable = functionally non-substitutable.

    EXAMPLE (humor)

    all Victoria’s Secret models are fungible.

    all hot brunettes are substitutable.

    all blondes are not substitutable.

    lolz

    (Response via PM from my mother: “all men are substitutable”.) 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-29 07:32:00 UTC

  • ON A GRAMMAR OF CATEGORIES (IDENTIFYING CONSTANT RELATIONS) So if we are to spea

    ON A GRAMMAR OF CATEGORIES (IDENTIFYING CONSTANT RELATIONS)

    So if we are to speak precisely we need a term that describes the limits of the human brain’s processes of identifying categories, then one for natural categories (invariant), and then one for utilitarian categories (variant/explanatory), and then for partially-substitutable/unpredictable ( variant/explanatory/plastic): this last being the problem of economic analysis, since that is the point at which mathematics begins to break down in the description of constant relations.

    So we need a grammar of identity (category). Because every category is something we identify, by identifying a set of constant relations. (a search function).

    Unfortunately, until we have artificial intelligences, it will be very difficult to quantify, or define some set of limits, that describe the information necessary to form constant relations. (this is, in my opinion, what Taleb’s work is limited by). This is also why I work with via-negativa, since if we cannot describe the thing in and of itself, but we can describe what it is not.

    The grammar of existence prevents substitution (ignorance, error, bias, deceit), by creating a unique identity for every single action, and therefore a category (recipe) of constant relations.

    i’ll try to give this some thought so that I can create a spectrum(series) that gives us a post-rationalist language for this subject…

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-29 07:22:00 UTC

  • CONSTANT RELATIONS: CLASS VS CATEGORY —“One is the notion of category that add

    CONSTANT RELATIONS: CLASS VS CATEGORY

    —“One is the notion of category that addresses the building blocks of thought – which are the categories that are necessary for thinking, knowing, deciding, etc.”—

    I don’t know what building blocks of thought are.

    But as far as I know the process of precognitive, as well as cognitive categorization refers to identifying a set of constant relations. And as far as I know that’s all that can be said about them. This is the function of our physical layers of neurons: reducing sets of constant relations to increasing generalizations that increase the potential for associations, culminating the potential for intertemporal associations.

    Again. As far as i know, this is all that can be or need be said. we do not need the word ‘category’, which in original translation means something on the order of ‘accusation’ or ‘assertion’, or ‘name’:

    category (n.)

    1580s, from Middle French catégorie, from Late Latin categoria, from Greek kategoria “accusation, prediction, category,” verbal noun from kategorein “to speak against; to accuse, assert, predicate,” from kata “down to” (or perhaps “against;” see cata-) + agoreuein “to harangue, to declaim (in the assembly),” from agora “public assembly” (see agora).

    Original sense of “accuse” weakened to “assert, name” by the time Aristotle applied kategoria to his 10 classes of things that can be named.

    —“category should be used by no-one who is not prepared to state (1) that he does not mean class, & (2) that he knows the difference between the two”—- [Fowler]

    So I should probably be more cautious when I use the term, since class(invariant) is at least descriptive, and the relationship between class(invariant) and category (utilitarian or ‘discretionary’? ) is easier to understand, even if ‘set of constant relations’ is existential. So we can express constant relations as either a Class or a Category. I tend to think (and I should probably work on clarifying this a bit), but I use class for existential categories (science), and category for utilitarian (imagining, reasoning).

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-28 18:24:00 UTC

  • PHILOSOPHERS NOW DEMOTED TO THE SAME RANKS AS THEOLOGIANS. Philosophers criticiz

    PHILOSOPHERS NOW DEMOTED TO THE SAME RANKS AS THEOLOGIANS.

    Philosophers criticize Theologians for archaic reasoning, and scientists criticize philosophers for archaic reasoning, and now Testimonialists get to criticize even scientists for archaic reasoning; criticize philosophers aggressively, and criticize theologians dismissively to the point of prosecutorally.

    I know, I know, I know….. Most people are over-invested in nonsense-philosophy as tools of categorization the same way that most people are over invested in theology, and the way that most people are subconsciously incapable of reversing their over-investment in justificationism, and consciously incapable of reversing their desire for monopoly decidability in justificationism.

    That point of demarcation( the error of monopoly, justificationary, decidability) may in fact function as the point of demarcation between post-human and human, the way agency functions as the point of self determination between human and domesticated animal. The way that observation of property in toto functions as the point of demarcation between domesticated animal and beast.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-28 17:23:00 UTC

  • TRUTH IS A MERCILESS GOD If your comforting lies are so precious that you will n

    TRUTH IS A MERCILESS GOD

    If your comforting lies are so precious that you will not burn them along with the comforting lies of the left, then you are not one of us, but one of them – no matter what comforting lies you tell yourself.

    Truth is a merciless god.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-28 15:48:00 UTC

  • “Testimonialism is not about identifying truth but about reporting truthfully.”-

    —“Testimonialism is not about identifying truth but about reporting truthfully.”— Bill Joslin

    Survival in the market of criticism (tests) is all we can know.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-28 12:39:00 UTC

  • Vi veri universum vivus vici “By the power of truth I, a mortal, have conquered

    Vi veri universum vivus vici

    “By the power of truth I, a mortal, have conquered all creation.”

    by force of truth, the universe, I mortal, have conquered

    (via Joel Davis)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-27 21:58:00 UTC