Curt Doolittle

Category: Epistemology and Method

  • HOW KNOWLEDGE IMPROVES —“sometimes what works satisfyingly for a time is subse

    HOW KNOWLEDGE IMPROVES

    —“sometimes what works satisfyingly for a time is subsequently found replaceable by something that works even better — for example, the discovery that Newtonian mechanics is a special case of relativistic mechanics that holds exactly only in the limit of v approaching zero, but is “good enough”— Frank Lovell

    Newtonian mechanics is a special case of relativistic mechanics where v approaches zero.

    This does not mean newtonian mechanics are false.

    As far as I can tell this tends, more often than not, by far, to be the method by which knowledge evolves. And I very much like Frank’s terminology here since it avoids the fallacy of treating knowledge (actions that produce desired outcomes) and logic (internally true or false) as bound by the same criteria. THEY ARE NOT.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-04-03 06:21:00 UTC

  • The economic, artistic, and political rewards of a language of social science wi

    The economic, artistic, and political rewards of a language of social science will be as great as the rewards of physical science. #NewRight

    Source date (UTC): 2016-04-02 07:35:30 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/716167155239239681

  • If man can learn to transition his arguments from mystical to rational and from

    If man can learn to transition his arguments from mystical to rational and from rational to empirical, then man can learn Propertarianism.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-04-02 07:33:45 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/716166715026104320

  • Propertarianism is an AMORAL (scientific) language for the analysis and comparis

    Propertarianism is an AMORAL (scientific) language for the analysis and comparison of normative differences. Morality is objective. We win.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-04-02 07:33:01 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/716166531235897344

  • Why are we the #NewRight? Because we rely on science, evidence, demonstrated pre

    Why are we the #NewRight? Because we rely on science, evidence, demonstrated preference – not wishful thinking. Empiricism = Conservatism.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-04-02 07:19:49 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/716163208017481728

  • WE DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO IGNORANCE AND MYSTICISM IN THE COMMONS Why do we have

    WE DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO IGNORANCE AND MYSTICISM IN THE COMMONS

    Why do we have the right to ignorance and mysticism (in the commons)?

    –“…the question is unanswerable…”–

    Quite the opposite. The question is answerable either way.

    That one cannot have a right to impose costs upon others.

    You can hold any falsehood you want, any immorality you want, as long as its in your head. But once you bring it into the commons then you are forcing a cost upon others.

    So,

    why does one have the right o act mystically?

    why does one have the right to act ignorantly?

    why does one have the right to act immorally?

    why does one have the right to act unethically?

    why does one have the right to act criminally?

    why does one have the right to act malignantly? (evil)

    You see, when you place ideas on a spectrum of similar ideas it becomes clearer that ignorance, and mysticism are merely increasingly indirect means of exporting costs upon others: another form of crime.

    In the past we have been tolerant of every form of malignant, criminal, unethical, immoral, ignorant, and mystical behaviors.

    But we have incrementally suppressed each form of crime over the generations and it is this suppression of crimes of imposition that have created our ‘domestication of man’. Our prosperity is the result of eliminating criminality as much as eliminating error.

    So again, why does one have the right to ignorance and mysticism any more than the right to immoral, unethical, criminal, and malignant behavior?

    One only possesses that right if others reciprocally grant it.

    That is the origin of all rights: reciprocal insurance.

    Why do we suppress imposition of costs? to force people into beneficial behavior rather than parasitic behavior. And ignorance and mysticism are a cost, and truth and spiritualism are not.

    There is nothing unscientific about spirituality any more than there is anything unscientific about the experience of seeing color in visible light.

    Mysticism is a drug. Ignorance is a form of free riding.

    Drugs are fine in your home. Ignorance is fine in your home.

    Don’t do drugs in public. Don’t speak ignorance in public.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-04-02 04:28:00 UTC

  • Moral language is a failure because they convinced useful idiots that morality w

    Moral language is a failure because they convinced useful idiots that morality was subjective. Financial and economic language defeats them.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-04-02 03:31:00 UTC

  • Why are we the #NewRight? Because we rely on science, evidence, demonstrated pre

    Why are we the #NewRight? Because we rely on science, evidence, demonstrated preference – not wishful thinking. Empiricism = Conservatism.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-04-02 03:19:00 UTC

  • When a man produces a prepared speech he speaks to the audience he assumes exist

    When a man produces a prepared speech he speaks to the audience he assumes exists, answering questions he assumes they possess.

    When a man answers questions he speaks to the audience that exists answering questions that exist.

    When a man speaks, he speaks to himself, answering his own questions, not those of an audience.

    I prefer to have a subject, and then interview the audience, and then tailor the conversation to suit the audience.

    This requires you are highly conversant in your subject.

    But it is the only time I ever feel comfortable with an audience.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-04-01 02:10:00 UTC

  • “The “Priests” ( Public intellectuals, Scientists, Politicians, Academics etc.)

    —“The “Priests” ( Public intellectuals, Scientists, Politicians, Academics etc.) dumb down the truth because either they don’t really know it themselves, want purposely to mislead, or believe their audience is (or wish them to be) too stupid to comprehend it. In doing so they create (have created) over time an audience that is in fact too stupid, uninformed and distracted to comprehend bare truth.”— Shanaynay Tomson

    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-31 12:03:00 UTC