Curt Doolittle

Form: Definition

  • NOMOCRACY = Rule of Law , Must = Rule of law by Natural Law of Reciprocity. Howe

    NOMOCRACY = Rule of Law , Must = Rule of law by Natural Law of Reciprocity. However, markets for comons must exist, because commons must exist for a polity to survive competition in the market for territory.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-06 15:19:55 UTC

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  • The Difference Between Debate, Negotiation, and Prosecution

      SERIES: Intelligible > imaginable(believable) > reasonable > rational > justificationary > logical > calculable > tautological. 1) On can rely on intuitionism and start with reason in order to construct calculation, or one can start with logic explain calculation (transformation of inputs into outputs), and devolve calculation into increasingly incommensurable (deflated, inflated, conflated, fictionalized) categories, until we define the unintelligible. 2) We can start optimistically with an attempt at negotiation and therefore cooperation, leaving open one’s choice of preference, or we can start pessimistically with prosecution and therefore and therefore a threat, leaving decidability (Truth) as the only means of escape. 3) In the market and in philosophy we can choose, in law and the court we cannot, because if you cannot testify to it – which is what empiricism is reducible to – you cannot defend yourself from prosecution with it. So as I write natural law, I don’t negotiate, I prosecute.

  • The Difference Between Debate, Negotiation, and Prosecution

      SERIES: Intelligible > imaginable(believable) > reasonable > rational > justificationary > logical > calculable > tautological. 1) On can rely on intuitionism and start with reason in order to construct calculation, or one can start with logic explain calculation (transformation of inputs into outputs), and devolve calculation into increasingly incommensurable (deflated, inflated, conflated, fictionalized) categories, until we define the unintelligible. 2) We can start optimistically with an attempt at negotiation and therefore cooperation, leaving open one’s choice of preference, or we can start pessimistically with prosecution and therefore and therefore a threat, leaving decidability (Truth) as the only means of escape. 3) In the market and in philosophy we can choose, in law and the court we cannot, because if you cannot testify to it – which is what empiricism is reducible to – you cannot defend yourself from prosecution with it. So as I write natural law, I don’t negotiate, I prosecute.

  • “GETTING TO DENMARK” “Getting To Denmark” is a ‘term of art’ so to speak in poli

    “GETTING TO DENMARK”

    “Getting To Denmark” is a ‘term of art’ so to speak in political theory. It means, how do you produce a technologically advanced, high trust polity with high tolerance for redistribution and low political conflict.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-03 15:50:14 UTC

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  • “GETTING TO DENMARK” “Getting To Denmark” is a ‘term of art’ or ‘term of conveni

    “GETTING TO DENMARK”

    “Getting To Denmark” is a ‘term of art’ or ‘term of convenience’ so to speak in political theory. It means, how do you produce a technologically advanced, high trust polity with high tolerance for redistribution and low political conflict.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-03 11:50:00 UTC

  • Existence

    —“It’s worth distinguishing between the knowledge of a referrer and the existence of its referent. We clearly know of the referrer (concept) we call ‘unicorn’, and might someday be able to bring some approximation of a unicorn into existence as a referent. The referent of the referrer ‘unicorn’ is not real, meaning it does not exist insofar as there isn’t a thing you can point to in the world and say ‘this is what I mean’.”–Trent Fowler Knowledge(know,knowing) is a verb – an action – not a noun (thing). Knowledge exists as long as a living mind exists to hold it, or a record of knowledge exists that is reconstructable into knowledge (experience), just as running exists only while a person runs. Knowledge of a unicorn exists, and we label such knowledge a ‘concept’ which means some category or other of referrer. Knowledge of concepts exists, but concepts do not. Knowledge of unicorns exists, but unicorns do not. Horses exist. Dinosaurs did exist, but other than their descendants: reptiles and birds do not.

  • EXISTENCE —“It’s worth distinguishing between the knowledge of a referrer and

    EXISTENCE

    —“It’s worth distinguishing between the knowledge of a referrer and the existence of its referent. We clearly know of the referrer (concept) we call ‘unicorn’, and might someday be able to bring some approximation of a unicorn into existence as a referent. The referent of the referrer ‘unicorn’ is not real, meaning it does not exist insofar as there isn’t a thing you can point to in the world and say ‘this is what I mean’.”–Trent Fowler

    Knowledge(know,knowing) is a verb – an action – not a noun (thing). Knowledge exists as long as a living mind exists to hold it, or a record of knowledge exists that is reconstructable into knowledge (experience), just as running exists only while a person runs.

    Knowledge of a unicorn exists, and we label such knowledge a ‘concept’ which means some category or other of referrer. Knowledge of concepts exists, but concepts do not. Knowledge of unicorns exists, but unicorns do not.

    Horses exist.

    Dinosaurs did exist, but other than their descendants: reptiles and birds do not.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-02 12:54:00 UTC

  • DECEPTION BY CONFLATION: INFLATING AUTHORITY There is no such thing as legitimac

    DECEPTION BY CONFLATION: INFLATING AUTHORITY

    There is no such thing as legitimacy other than the legitimacy of a child. There is no such thing as validity other than a stamp of certification. In argument there is only soundness, and soundness is not a proxy for true, simply for reasonableness – meaning it’s understandable and so far not false.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-02 08:35:00 UTC

  • SERIES: Imaginable > possible > reasonable > rational(ism), logical > tautologic

    SERIES: Imaginable > possible > reasonable > rational(ism), logical > tautological.

    Very common in english, which is a very technical language (analytic), we tend to pick terms that convey higher authority (persuasive ability) than our arguments support.

    So technically speaking most of the time we use ‘rational’ we mean reasonable, and when we use the term rational we mean argumentatively sound, and when we mean logical, we mean (very) internally consistent.

    So technically speaking when we use ‘rational choice’ we mean ‘reasonable choice’. The problem is ‘rational choice’ is embedded in the literature. We really don’t have a term for between reasonable (we can understand it), reasonable given the actor’s unseen incentives and values, and rational meaning argumentatively sound.

    Sometimes for clarity I’ll use reasonable vs rational choice, vs rational.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 20:19:00 UTC

  • Definition: Agency

    DEFINITION: AGENCY Agency is the capacity for human beings to identify opportunities and make choices that are consistent, correspondent, existentially possible, and coherent with and within reality, and to act upon them, unimpeded by knowledge limitation (ignorance), intellectual limitation(intelligence), mindfulness limitation (impulse), physical limitations(body), instrumental limitations(technologies), resource limitations, the impediments of others and their organizations into norms, laws, institutions, polities, and armies. Perfect agency would require omniscience, omnipotence, and complete insulation from impulse. Simon Ström translates Agency to the language of physics: AGENCY = POTENTIAL ENERGY Agency = potential energy (PE) Force = applied energy (F) Event = Impulse (Imp), [force vector + temporal dimension] Consequence = displacement vector (s) Action = work (W) Externalities = Waste heat (h) W = F * s