Curt Doolittle

Category: Epistemology and Method

  • IT”S NOT THE ANSWERS THAT ARE COMPLEX, ITS THE LANGUAGE —I am not convinced th

    IT”S NOT THE ANSWERS THAT ARE COMPLEX, ITS THE LANGUAGE

    —I am not convinced that the answers are so complex—Stefan Panturu

    Stefan,

    You’re right. It’s not the answers that are complex, it’s the use of legal, financial, economic, and genetic language to express traditional moral, ethical, spiritual and cultural ideas.

    This rather goofy and pretentious sounding language makes it very HARD to say something unless you really understand it.

    And that’s the whole point: the reduction or elimination of error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, overloading, pseudoscience, and deceit.

    This language allows us to state both our traditional cultural group strategy in scientific terms, but it also allows us to demonstrate that the left is nothing but a bunch of lying thieves.

    So, yes, Propertarianism is a terrible language for COMMUNICATING, but it’s an exceptional language for speaking the truth – because you can’t speak it if you don’t know it.

    And it’s an exceptional language for prosecuting the left and their religion of lying, shaming rallying, propagandizing and pseudoscience.

    Mathematics, Logic, Economics, law and finance all have very specific languages for very important reasons. We are not used to discussing manners, ethics, morals, economics, politics and group evolutionary strategy in those languages.

    But it turns out that we can. And because we can, we can defeat the left with truth just as the left defeated moral men with pseudoscience, propaganda and lies.

    Curt Doolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-25 17:25:00 UTC

  • Conversely, the reason people use loaded verse is to deceive: to cast as univers

    Conversely, the reason people use loaded verse is to deceive: to cast as universal that which is particular

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-25 11:47:38 UTC

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  • The fact that I eschew attempts at falsely stating a homogeneity of interests is

    The fact that I eschew attempts at falsely stating a homogeneity of interests is why I used unloaded verse.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-25 11:46:48 UTC

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  • Self-evidence requires knowledge of self-evidence. You simply don’t possess it.

    Self-evidence requires knowledge of self-evidence. You simply don’t possess it. That said, it requires a lot of knowledge.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-24 08:12:38 UTC

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    @curtdoolittle None of these terms are meaningfully defined. None of these premises are self-evident.

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  • A FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH – COUNTER TO PRESENT NORM. – The universe may be written in

    A FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH – COUNTER TO PRESENT NORM.

    – The universe may be written in mathematics.

    – But actions are written in algorithms

    – Cooperation is written in argument

    – And Ideation is written in free association.

    This sequence is profoundly important for our understanding everything.

    Curt Doolittle,

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-23 10:35:00 UTC

  • AGREEMENT IS A BINARY MEASUREMENT We don’t think of humans as instruments of mea

    AGREEMENT IS A BINARY MEASUREMENT

    We don’t think of humans as instruments of measure, but in terms of measuring cooperation, productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange limited to productive externality, is the only test of truth test of good or bad.

    We calculate when we cooperate. What we calculate is the common good that we cannot ourselves ever know and possibly would never agree to.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-22 10:50:00 UTC

  • THE CURRICULUM “INTEGRA CORPORIS ET SCIENTIA” (or, the complete body of knowledg

    THE CURRICULUM “INTEGRA CORPORIS ET SCIENTIA”

    (or, the complete body of knowledge)

    Action (the human body)

    … Needs (air, water, food, warmth, shelter)

    … Abilities and Limits

    … Fitness

    … Labor

    … Sport

    … Rescue

    … Fighting

    Thought (archaic ‘psychology’)

    … Mind (archaic ‘Psychology’)

    … … Aesthetics

    … … Acquisitionism

    … … Incentives

    … … Error, Bias, Wishful Thinking …

    … Thought (archaic ‘epistemology’)

    … … Free Association (creativity)

    … … Reason (wayfinding)

    … … Criticism (laundering)

    … … Testimony (due diligence)

    Communication (archaic trivium)

    … Reading, Writing

    … … Reading and writing

    … … … Phonetics: Symbol, Sound, Action

    … … Grammar

    … … Logic

    … … Argument

    … … Falsehood, Fraud and Deceit

    … Speaking

    … … Storytelling

    … … Questioning

    … … Rhetoric

    … Information

    … … History

    … … Literature

    … … Visual and Dramatic Art

    Calculation

    … Observation

    … Measurement

    … Mathematics

    … … Numbers – Counting, Positional Naming.

    … … Arithmetic – Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division

    … … Mathematics

    … … Algebra 1 – (transformations)

    … … Geometry and Trigonometry – (Space)

    … … Algebra 2 – (geometric transformations)

    … … Pre-Calculus – (limits)

    … … Calculus 1 – (change in processes)

    … … Calculus 2 – ()

    … … Linear Algebra

    … … Applications and models

    … … … Differential Equations

    … … … Modeling

    … … … Applications

    … … Statistics

    … … … Statistics 1 – (distributions)

    … … … Statistics 2 – (models in equilibria)

    … … Pure mathematics.

    … … … Linear Algebra

    … … … Discreet and non-discrete mathematics

    … Instrumentation

    … … [more]

    Transformation

    … Engineering

    … … Physics and entropy

    … … Chemistry and Transformation

    … … Biology and Evolution

    … … Sentience and Decidability

    … Processes, Programming and Modeling

    … … Processes (human processes)

    … … … [work to do here]

    … … Programming [machine processes]

    … … … [work to do here]

    … … Modeling

    … … … [work to do here]

    … Economy

    … … Money and Prices and Time

    … … Interest, Credit, Debt, Accounts

    … … Accounting – Balancing. Rolling up.

    … … Management Accounting (cash)

    … … Micro Economics

    … … Financial Instruments

    … … Financial Accounting

    … … Political (Insured) Accounting

    … … Fiat Accounting (shareholder) Accounting

    … … Macro Economics

    … Information

    … … [how information functions in a polity]

    Cooperation (archaic ‘sociology’)

    … Mankind (behavioral science)

    … Ethics and morality

    … Natural Law

    … … Institutions of Conflict Resolution

    … Families (unit of reproduction)

    … … [more]

    … Organizations (unit of production)

    … … [more – different orgs – how orgs function]

    … Economics

    … … Institutions of money and credit.

    … Politics

    … … Formal Institutions of Commons

    Competition (Group Evolutionary Strategy)

    … Strategies that can be employed

    … … Political, Normative, and property models.

    Conflict (War)

    … War against Things,

    … War against People by Immigration (invasion) by People,

    … War by trade against Production (trade and credit)

    … War by Conversion (Religion) against Norms.

    … War by Information (disinformation) against knowledge.

    … Formal Institutions of offense and defense.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-21 12:47:00 UTC

  • Retweeted scientism (@mr_scientism): When you’re smart, you can be wrong in real

    Retweeted scientism (@mr_scientism):

    When you’re smart, you can be wrong in really elaborate ways.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-20 06:49:00 UTC

  • Precision in Argument vs Transfer of Meaning

    Most of what I encounter is people trying to talk about precise things dependent upon reason and deduction, while relying on imprecise language from which reason and deduction are largely impossible. One cannot make deductive arguments from the common speech – which is full of error and ignorance. There is a very good reason that each discipline uses specific terminoligy despite the confusion that this creates for non-members: some degree of precision is necessary for the purpose of argument.

    Law still uses latin terms for good reason: they’re not open to colloquial interpretation.

  • Precision in Argument vs Transfer of Meaning

    Most of what I encounter is people trying to talk about precise things dependent upon reason and deduction, while relying on imprecise language from which reason and deduction are largely impossible. One cannot make deductive arguments from the common speech – which is full of error and ignorance. There is a very good reason that each discipline uses specific terminoligy despite the confusion that this creates for non-members: some degree of precision is necessary for the purpose of argument.

    Law still uses latin terms for good reason: they’re not open to colloquial interpretation.