Curt Doolittle

Category: Epistemology and Method

  • The Three Characters of Honest Debate

    Each of these characters represents one of the three axes of coercion.  Put yourself in the center of a triangle with each of them at a corner, and try to achieve a consensus.  This is the easiest way to understand the problem of political cooperation.  Coercion isn’t possible, only exchange. 

    GHENGIS KHAN -- THOMAS JEFFERSON -- MOTHER THERESA 
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VIOLENCE...........EXCHANGE............SUBSIDY
RIGHT...............CENTER..............LEFT 
FATHER...............SON.............SISTER/MOTHER

  • The Three Characters of Honest Debate

    Each of these characters represents one of the three axes of coercion.  Put yourself in the center of a triangle with each of them at a corner, and try to achieve a consensus.  This is the easiest way to understand the problem of political cooperation.  Coercion isn’t possible, only exchange. 

    GHENGIS KHAN -- THOMAS JEFFERSON -- MOTHER THERESA 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
VIOLENCE...........EXCHANGE............SUBSIDY
RIGHT...............CENTER..............LEFT 
FATHER...............SON.............SISTER/MOTHER

  • Ah, but they are my words. Their order, their emphasis, their choice, are mine.

    Ah, but they are my words. Their order, their emphasis, their choice, are mine.

    Ah, but over the millennia we incrementally whittle the error bias and lies from the prior generation’s words, leaving but the necessary underneath.

    Ah, but truth is not arrogant, it merely exists – laid bare by erosion. And the error bias and lies, lay about in the dust: the remains of the foolish, the arrogant, and deceitful of the generations that came before us.

    You cannot defeat truth with shaming, rallying, and moral argument that claims offense, since truth holds the apex of morality, and all else is but error, bias, and lie beneath it.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-23 18:08:00 UTC

  • SUBJECTS (still working on an integrated curriculum) RULE – LIMITS / THE FATHER

    SUBJECTS

    (still working on an integrated curriculum)

    RULE – LIMITS / THE FATHER / ARISTOCRACY – SOVEREIGNTY

    Athletics and Aesthetics,

    Epistemology and Testimony,

    Psychology and Sociology

    Ethics and Law

    Politics and Rhetoric

    Economics and Finance

    Group Evolutionary Strategy and War

    PRODUCTION / THE BROTHER / LIBERTY – FREEDOM

    Accounting and Arithmetic

    Logic and Mathematics

    Materials and Transformations

    Physics and Formulae

    Chemistry and Operations

    Biology and Models

    Sentience and Simulations

    INFORMATION / THE MOTHER – EDUCATION

    Reading, Writing and Speaking

    Fairy Tales/Mythology, Reading aloud.

    Stories, and Summaries

    Biography and Diaries

    History and Essays

    Literature and Criticism

    Argument and Refutation

    CARE / THE SISTER / SUBSIDY

    Manners and Morals

    Friendship and Play

    Partnership and Cooperation

    Mating and Sexuality

    Parenting and Family

    Medicine and Emergency

    Insurance and Caretaking

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-23 17:29:00 UTC

  • One Cannot Testify to Faith

    If you need faith to justify it, then you cannot testify to it. in other words, you cannot claim it is true.

  • One Cannot Testify to Faith

    If you need faith to justify it, then you cannot testify to it. in other words, you cannot claim it is true.

  • A Correction of “Truth, Goodness, And Beauty”

    THE ORIGINAL WASN”T QUITE RIGHT Sovereignty, Truth, Excellence, and Beauty. The original truth, goodness, and beauty betrayed an unfortunate lack of understanding.

    ……S E….+…..B ……T

  • A Correction of “Truth, Goodness, And Beauty”

    THE ORIGINAL WASN”T QUITE RIGHT Sovereignty, Truth, Excellence, and Beauty. The original truth, goodness, and beauty betrayed an unfortunate lack of understanding.

    ……S E….+…..B ……T

  • mysticism requires faith in the supernatural. reliance upon reason requires noth

    mysticism requires faith in the supernatural. reliance upon reason requires nothing other than that a rational preference for the logical necessity that over the long term, fewer falsehoods must eventually produce greater parsimony of correspondence (truth).

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-23 14:12:00 UTC

  • if you submit to mysticism you have abandoned reason. if you abandon reason you

    if you submit to mysticism you have abandoned reason. if you abandon reason you are no longer capable of rational cooperation. if you are no longer capable of rational cooperation then you are not longer human.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-23 13:24:00 UTC