Curt Doolittle

Category: Epistemology and Method

  • I THINK THIS WORKS doolittle – negativa haidt – practica peterson – positiva

    I THINK THIS WORKS

    doolittle – negativa

    haidt – practica

    peterson – positiva

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-11 11:31:00 UTC

  • ONLY HUMANS CAN MAKE TRUTH CLAIMS. We cannot know the truth proper (the most par

    ONLY HUMANS CAN MAKE TRUTH CLAIMS.

    We cannot know the truth proper (the most parsimonious statement possible by humans if possessed of perfect information) even if we speak it. We can only know that we do not speak in error, bias, wishful thinking, or deceit.

    If we perform due diligences (proofs of survival) in an attempt to falsify our statements, then we demonstrate that 1) we speak as truthfully as humanly possible in the moment, 2) we speak morally, and if we err will not be judged harshly by our peers, 3) and we progress toward the truth even if we later discover that we err.

    The verb to-be is a pleasant shortcut, but our primary source of overconfidence in our speech. And if we eliminate the verb to-be then we cannot say ‘this phrase is true’. We can only say “I promise I speak truthfully when I say this phrase.”

    We are often confused by conflating honesty, proof, analytic truth, truthfulness, and ‘truth’ proper.

    But only humans can make truth claims. We speak truthfully or not. we testify to the truthfulness of symbols and measures. Symbols and measures cannot promise so they cannot speak truthfully. Only their authors can.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-11 11:12:00 UTC

  • WHAT DOES THAT WORD ‘TRUE’ MEAN? Look. You dont understand the word ‘true’. We c

    WHAT DOES THAT WORD ‘TRUE’ MEAN?

    Look. You dont understand the word ‘true’.

    We construct mathematical, logical, empirical, operational proofs of consistency, and by doing so demonstrate possibility.

    You claim to testify truthfully, that your statements are possible.

    In other words, an expression isn’t ‘true’. It’s a proof and you claim to speak truthfully because of that proof.

    You can’t depersonalize truth. Because only you can make the promise of speaking truthfully.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-11 10:46:00 UTC

  • Against Fantasy Moral Literature

    Yeah, I really don’t like ‘moral literature’. the rule of deconflation (deflation): use literature for analogies. Use natural law for morality (moral accounting). Use Truth for testimony (science), and avoid ‘moral literature’. Because it was the conflationary content of moral literature that allowed the conservatives of the 19th and 20th centuries to fail to produce a counter to cosmopolitan pseudoscience, and french moralism, and german rationalism.

  • Against Fantasy Moral Literature

    Yeah, I really don’t like ‘moral literature’. the rule of deconflation (deflation): use literature for analogies. Use natural law for morality (moral accounting). Use Truth for testimony (science), and avoid ‘moral literature’. Because it was the conflationary content of moral literature that allowed the conservatives of the 19th and 20th centuries to fail to produce a counter to cosmopolitan pseudoscience, and french moralism, and german rationalism.

  • Definitions: Wisdom Literature, Theology, Ideology, Philosophy, Logic, Science, and Law.

    —“ A wisdom literature provides advice for decisions and choices within the limits of a group’s evolutionary strategy within a group using that evolutionary strategy. A Theology provides an authoritarian wisdom literature, by false promise and false threat, conflating wisdom and law between competing group evolutionary strategies. An ideology serves to inspire individuals to action under democracy. A philosophy provides methods of choice in order to achieve a desired state of affairs. A formal logic provides language and grammar for the testing (falsification) of the internal consistency of verbal relations. A science provides a formal process(logical and physical instrumentation) decidability for the elimination of ignorance, error, bias, and deceit from our claims. Strictly constructed Natural Law unite formal logic and formal science to provide decidability in matters of dispute. ”— Curt Doolittle, The Propertarian Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine.

     

  • Definitions: Wisdom Literature, Theology, Ideology, Philosophy, Logic, Science, and Law.

    —“ A wisdom literature provides advice for decisions and choices within the limits of a group’s evolutionary strategy within a group using that evolutionary strategy. A Theology provides an authoritarian wisdom literature, by false promise and false threat, conflating wisdom and law between competing group evolutionary strategies. An ideology serves to inspire individuals to action under democracy. A philosophy provides methods of choice in order to achieve a desired state of affairs. A formal logic provides language and grammar for the testing (falsification) of the internal consistency of verbal relations. A science provides a formal process(logical and physical instrumentation) decidability for the elimination of ignorance, error, bias, and deceit from our claims. Strictly constructed Natural Law unite formal logic and formal science to provide decidability in matters of dispute. ”— Curt Doolittle, The Propertarian Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine.

     

  • Correcting Aristotle’s Categories of Philosophy

    The Law of Nature “Correcting Aristotle on Categories of Philosophy”

    Physical Laws (Transformation) – THE NECESSARY

    Physics: Astronomy, Chemistry, Biology, Sentience, Engineering, Mathematics

    Law of Man (properties of man) (Action) – THE POSSIBLE

    Acquisition, perception, memory, psychology, sociology

    Natural Law – Cooperation – THE GOOD

    Ethics, morality, law, economics

    Law of Testimony – THE TRUE

    Testimony, epistemology, grammar, logics, rhetoric

    Law of Aesthetics – THE BEAUTIFUL

    Sense, beauty, design, craft, content. manners. Fitness –Curt Doolittle, The Propertarian Institute, Kiev, Ukraine

  • Correcting Aristotle’s Categories of Philosophy

    The Law of Nature “Correcting Aristotle on Categories of Philosophy”

    Physical Laws (Transformation) – THE NECESSARY

    Physics: Astronomy, Chemistry, Biology, Sentience, Engineering, Mathematics

    Law of Man (properties of man) (Action) – THE POSSIBLE

    Acquisition, perception, memory, psychology, sociology

    Natural Law – Cooperation – THE GOOD

    Ethics, morality, law, economics

    Law of Testimony – THE TRUE

    Testimony, epistemology, grammar, logics, rhetoric

    Law of Aesthetics – THE BEAUTIFUL

    Sense, beauty, design, craft, content. manners. Fitness –Curt Doolittle, The Propertarian Institute, Kiev, Ukraine

  • —“An ideology functions, like literature, to inspire individuals to action under

    —“An ideology functions, like literature, to inspire individuals to action under democracy. A philosophy provides methods of decidability in order to achieve a desired state of affairs. A formal logic provides language for the testing (criticism) of relations for internal consistency (falsification). A science provides a formal process and instrumentation for the elimination of ignorance, error, bias, and deceit.”— Curt Doolittle, The Propertarian Institute, Kiev, Ukraine.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-09 09:43:00 UTC