Category: Epistemology and Method

THE SYNTHESIS

I am not going to finish this today but I want to get it out for the wow factor in case I get hit by a bus or something.

IN ORDER TO ACT IN REALITY WE MUST WARRANTY OUR JUDGEMENTS

***I warranty to myself and to others that I performed due diligence prior to my actions – including speech – such that my actions imposed no net cost upon myself, or upon others, and by doing so, harmed both my survivability and the incentive to voluntarily cooperate while being free of the imposition of cost by others.***

THEREFORE

***as the complexity of CONSEQUENCES of ERROR increase, the degree of due diligence I must perform in order to provide myself and others a warranty that my reasoning and actions perform no harm to myself or others***

THE POWER OF THE HUMAN MIND IS ITS SEARCH ENGINE (INTUITION) NOT NECESSARILY ITS REASON.

***Our reason provides us both with search improvement and warranty***

ABILITY BIASES

– Gender

– Intelligence

– Impulsively

– Aggression

– Reproductive Fitness

– Cooperative Fitness

MORAL BIASES

Individual Property Rights:

1. Care/harm (The asset of life and body.)

2. Proportionality/cheating, (The asset of goods.)

3. Liberty/Oppression, (The asset of time, opportunity.)

Community Property Rights

4. In-Group Loyalty/In-Group Betrayal to/of your group, family, nation, polity.

5. Respect/Authority/Subversion for tradition and legitimate authority.

6. Purity/Sanctity/Degradation/Disgust, avoiding disgusting things, foods, actions.

DEMONSTRATED PROPERTY

I. SELF-PROPERTY

Personal property: “Things an individual has a Monopoly Of Control over the use of.”

a) Physical Body

b) Actions and Time

c) Memories, Concepts and Identities: tools that enable us to plan and act. In the consumer economy this includes brands.

d) Status and Class (mate and relation selection, and reputation.)

II. PERSONAL PROPERTY

a) Several Property: Those things external to our bodies that we claim a monopoly of control over.

III. KINSHIP PROPERTY

a) Mates (access to sex/reproduction)

b) Children (genetics)

c) Familial Relations (security)

d) Non-Familial Relations (utility)

e) Consanguineous property (tribal and family ties)

IV. COOPERATIVE PROPERTY

a) Organizational ties (work)

b) Knowledge ties (skills, crafts)

V. SHAREHOLDER PROPERTY

a) Shares: Recorded And Quantified Shareholder Property (physical shares in a tradable asset)

b) Commons: Unrecorded and Unquantified Shareholder Property (shares in commons)

c) Artificial Property: (property created by fiat agreement) Intellectual Property.

VI. INFORMAL INSTITUTIONAL PROPERTY:

a) Informal (Normative) Property: Our norms: manners, ethics, morals, myths, and rituals that consist of our social portfolio and which make our social order possible.

VII. FORMAL INSTITUTIONAL PROPERTY

a) Formal Institutional Property: Formal (Procedural) Institutions: Our institutions: Religion (including the secular religion), Government, Laws.

SYSTEMS

– System -1 = Acquisition (objective)

– System 0 = Property (biased)

– System 1 = Intuition (search)

– System 2 = Reason (comparison)

CONCEPTUAL SEQUENCE

1 – Perception

2 – Experience

3 – Comprehension (identity)

4 – Association (imagination) (search)

5 – Criticism (testing) (reason)

6 – Valuation (judgement) (reason)

7 – Decision (reason)

8 – Action (test)

HIERARCHY OF TRUTHS

1 – Understandable: True enough to imagine a conceptual relationship

2 – Rationalizable: True enough for me to feel good about myself.

3 – Rational: True enough for me to take actions that produce positive results.

4 – Moral: True enough for me to not cause others to react negatively to me.

5 – Decidable (Justice): True enough to resolve a conflict without subjective opinion among my fellow people with similar values.

6 – Decidable (justice): True enough to resolve a conflict without subjective opinion across different peoples with different values.

7 – True: True regardless of all opinions or perspectives.

8 – Tatuology: Tautologically true: in that the two things are equal.

METHODS OF POSSIBLE WARRANTY

1 – Understandable/Recognizable (imaginable, possible to imagine)

2 – Reason (Reasonable, Reason)

3 – Rationalism (internally Consistent, non contradictory)

4 – Critical Rationalism (falsified for physical science)

5 – Testimonialism (falsified for social science)

ETHICAL AND MORAL WARRANTIES

1 – Productive

2 – Fully Informed

3 – Warrantied

4 – Voluntary

5 – Transfer

6 – Free of externalities to the contrary.

SCIENTIFIC METHOD

-fact-

1 – Observation

2 – Identification

3 – Hypothesis

4 – Criticism

5 – Fact

-theory-

1 – Observation

2 – Free Association (internal observation)

3 – Identification

4 – Hypothesis

5 – Criticism

6 – Theory

-law-

1 – Publication

2 – Observation

3 – Free Association

4 – Hypothesis

5 – Criticism

6 – Law (survival)

FULL SET OF WARRANTIES OF TRUTHFULNESS

1 – Categorically consistent (non-conflationary)

2 – Internally Consistent (logical and non-contradictory) “justifiable”

3 – Externally correspondent (observably consistent) “demonstrable”

4 – Existentially-Possible (operationally demonstrable and subjectively testable) “possible”

5 – Moral (consisting of productive, fully informed, warr., vol. exch)

6 – Fully Accounted (have we included all externalities?) “free of externalities”

7 – Limited (what are the limits of the statement?) “Falsified”

8 – Parsimonious (where is information lacking?) “internal limits”

ETHICAL SPECTRUM

1 – Pedagogical Ethics – youth

2 – Virtue Ethics – young

3 – Rule Ethics – adult

4 – Outcome Ethics – mature adult

5 – Testimonial Ethics – the wise adult

ORGANIZATIONS OF PRODUCTION

1 – Persistence of Existence (life)

2 – Organization of Reproduction (family)

3 – Organization of Production of Consumption

4 – Organization of Production of Commons (investment)

WEAPONS OF INFLUENCE, ORGANIZATION, COERCION

1 – Violence ( Deprivation of Inventory )

2 – Exchange ( Deprivation of opportunity )

3 – Gossip ( Deprivation of cooperation )

APPLICATION OF WEAPONS OF INFLUENCE

The Demand for Production – Using Gossip (shaming)

The Involuntary Organization of Production – Using Force

The Voluntary Organization of Production – Exchange

PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMS

Metaphysical

……..Heroism (demonstrated excellence)

……..Science (truth) ……

……..Naturalism (reality)

……. Natural Law (sovereignty)

Political

……..Consent, Contract, Republican(Meritocratic) Commons

……..Testimony, Common Law, Judge, Jury

Moral

……..Christianity (love/trust bias)

Spiritual (Aesthetic)

…….Love of nature (animism/paganism)

Personal

…….Buddhism……….Stoicism

…….Yoga…………..sport

…….Nurturing………Craftsmanship.

…….Spiritual ……..Political (mental?)

…….Experiential……Actionable

…….Feminine …….. Masculine