Curt Doolittle

Form: Definition

  • Red Queen is the Enemy

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesisThe Red Queen is the Enemy

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-31 11:26:00 UTC

  • The Problem with The Category ‘psychology’.

      I distinguish between freudianism, psychologism, therapy, incentives/biases/limits/logic, neurochemistry, and cognitive science. When a person says “psychology” I usually have to deduce which of those they’re referring to. In my understanding psychology is used to refer to each of those. However, the first two are pseudosciences, therapy/self/help is something else, and the rest are sciences. Usually I am criticizing the use of the first two or the conflation of the first two with others. May 25, 2018 5:03pm

  • The Problem with The Category ‘psychology’.

      I distinguish between freudianism, psychologism, therapy, incentives/biases/limits/logic, neurochemistry, and cognitive science. When a person says “psychology” I usually have to deduce which of those they’re referring to. In my understanding psychology is used to refer to each of those. However, the first two are pseudosciences, therapy/self/help is something else, and the rest are sciences. Usually I am criticizing the use of the first two or the conflation of the first two with others. May 25, 2018 5:03pm

  • —“How are society, culture and politics interrelated with each other?”—

    SOCIETY: People in a geography with shared interests because of shared dependence upon language, manners, norms, laws, and institutions. POLITICS: The institutional means by which we jockey for, negotiate upon, decide upon which commons are produced with the scarce resources of the polity (population) – usually in the form of taxes, but also trade, behavior, and legislation. CULTURE: Myths, Traditions, Rituals, Holidays, Foods, Arts. Technically: the group’s evolutionary strategy, and the costs we pay to demonstrate reciprocal fitness (agreeableness) for that strategy.
    May 25, 2018 10:07am

  • —“How are society, culture and politics interrelated with each other?”—

    SOCIETY: People in a geography with shared interests because of shared dependence upon language, manners, norms, laws, and institutions. POLITICS: The institutional means by which we jockey for, negotiate upon, decide upon which commons are produced with the scarce resources of the polity (population) – usually in the form of taxes, but also trade, behavior, and legislation. CULTURE: Myths, Traditions, Rituals, Holidays, Foods, Arts. Technically: the group’s evolutionary strategy, and the costs we pay to demonstrate reciprocal fitness (agreeableness) for that strategy.
    May 25, 2018 10:07am

  • The Problem with The Category ‘psychology’.

    I distinguish between freudianism, psychologism, therapy, incentives/biases/limits/logic, neurochemistry, and cognitive science. When a person says “psychology” I usually have to deduce which of those they’re referring to. In my understanding psychology is used to refer to each of those. However, the first two are pseudosciences, therapy/self/help is something else, and the rest are sciences. Usually I am criticizing the use of the first two or the conflation of the first two with others. May 25, 2018 5:03pm

  • The Problem with The Category ‘psychology’.

    I distinguish between freudianism, psychologism, therapy, incentives/biases/limits/logic, neurochemistry, and cognitive science. When a person says “psychology” I usually have to deduce which of those they’re referring to. In my understanding psychology is used to refer to each of those. However, the first two are pseudosciences, therapy/self/help is something else, and the rest are sciences. Usually I am criticizing the use of the first two or the conflation of the first two with others. May 25, 2018 5:03pm

  • THE PROBLEM WITH THE CATEGORY ‘PSYCHOLOGY’. I distinguish between freudianism, p

    THE PROBLEM WITH THE CATEGORY ‘PSYCHOLOGY’.

    I distinguish between freudianism, psychologism, therapy, incentives/biases/limits/logic, neurochemistry, and cognitive science.

    When a person says “psychology” I usually have to deduce which of those they’re referring to.

    In my understanding psychology is used to refer to each of those. However, the first two are pseudosciences, therapy/self/help is something else, and the rest are sciences.

    Usually I am criticizing the use of the first two or the conflation of the first two with others.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-25 17:03:00 UTC

  • “How are society, culture and politics interrelated with each other?”— SOCIETY

    —“How are society, culture and politics interrelated with each other?”—

    SOCIETY: People in a geography with shared interests because of shared dependence upon language, manners, norms, laws, and institutions.

    POLITICS: The institutional means by which we jockey for, negotiate upon, decide upon which commons are produced with the scarce resources of the polity (population) – usually in the form of taxes, but also trade, behavior, and legislation.

    CULTURE: Myths, Traditions, Rituals, Holidays, Foods, Arts. Technically: the group’s evolutionary strategy, and the costs we pay to demonstrate reciprocal fitness (agreeableness) for that strategy.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-25 10:07:00 UTC

  • –“What Does True Mean?”–

    Ok, so traditionally we say “a statement that is consistent, correspondent, and coherent.” But that’s not really clear enough. So, I’ll expand it fully: 1 – categorically consistent 2 – internally consistent (logical) 3 – externally correspondent (empirical) 4 – existentially possible (operationally stated) 5 – rational and reciprocal (voluntary, ethical and moral) 6 – with stated limits and full accounting. (complete) 7 – and coherent across all of the above. (coherent) The reason being that (a) those are the categories actionable by man) and (b) no category is closed without appeal to the next. and so (c) any statement must pass all those tests. Now, a fact consists of a theory of a measurement. And a statement consist of a promise of constant relations. And a theory consists of a contingent description of causal relations. You only know falsehoods. We never know truths without perfect knowledge. We never have perfect knowledge. So all we can do is warranty our truthfulness (due diligence) against falsehood. This is the difference between justificationism (i think this because of these excuses) and falsificationism (i think this because I have no other choice that survives falsification).
    May 24, 2018 11:57am