Form: Definition

  • The host? What is that? It is the militia: every man able to fight

    The host? What is that? It is the militia: every man able to fight.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-11-25 10:49:00 UTC

  • The host? What is that? It is the militia: every man able to fight

    The host? What is that? It is the militia: every man able to fight.
  • The host? What is that? It is the militia: every man able to fight

    The host? What is that? It is the militia: every man able to fight.
  • DEFINITION: “INTELLECTUAL” (Idea Worker, Seller of Ideas) —“Curt, define the t

    DEFINITION: “INTELLECTUAL” (Idea Worker, Seller of Ideas)

    —“Curt, define the term ‘intellectual’ pls.”— Francesco Principi

    “Idea-workers that exercise influence on policy makers and public opinion, but are not directly accountable for the results.”

    “Those whose careers are built on the creation and dissemination of ideas have played a role in many societies out of all proportion to their numbers. Whether that role has, on balance, made those around them better off or worse off is one of the key questions of our times.”

    Empirically speaking it is very hard to argue that intellectuals in the 20th c have produced more harm than good.

    See Thomas Sowell’s “Intellectuals and Society”.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-11-23 12:10:00 UTC

  • Definition: “Intellectual”

    DEFINITION: “INTELLECTUAL” (Idea Worker, Seller of Ideas) —“Curt, define the term ‘intellectual’ pls.”— Francesco Principi “Idea-workers that exercise influence on policy makers and public opinion, but are not directly accountable for the results.” “Those whose careers are built on the creation and dissemination of ideas have played a role in many societies out of all proportion to their numbers. Whether that role has, on balance, made those around them better off or worse off is one of the key questions of our times.” Empirically speaking it is very hard to argue that intellectuals in the 20th c have produced more harm than good. See Thomas Sowell’s “Intellectuals and Society”.
  • Definition: “Intellectual”

    DEFINITION: “INTELLECTUAL” (Idea Worker, Seller of Ideas) —“Curt, define the term ‘intellectual’ pls.”— Francesco Principi “Idea-workers that exercise influence on policy makers and public opinion, but are not directly accountable for the results.” “Those whose careers are built on the creation and dissemination of ideas have played a role in many societies out of all proportion to their numbers. Whether that role has, on balance, made those around them better off or worse off is one of the key questions of our times.” Empirically speaking it is very hard to argue that intellectuals in the 20th c have produced more harm than good. See Thomas Sowell’s “Intellectuals and Society”.
  • by Curt Doolittle – Consistency in the categorical, internal, correspondent, ope

    by Curt Doolittle – Consistency in the categorical, internal, correspondent, operational, volitional, reciprocal, and fully accounted dimensions, create universally commensurable statements, just as certainly as constant dimensional relations in the first four dimensions are sufficient to describe any motion of and constant relations in time. by Bill Joslin: – Categorical = identity – Internal = is it logical – Correspondent = is it real – Operational = does it exist (how it exists , is real) – Volitional = is it doable – Reciprocity= is it successful (moral) – Fully accounting – necessary and sufficient for all of the above and all consequences accounted for.
  • HOW DO YOU DEFINE PHILOSOPHY? Philosophy. Mindfulness. Dominance over the mind i

    HOW DO YOU DEFINE PHILOSOPHY?

    Philosophy. Mindfulness. Dominance over the mind in the face of the unknown. Using grammar of technology. Tech(philio) vs Fiction(religion). Deflation vs Inflation. Mindfulness was necessary at ‘worry’ post-human-scales. All civ’s encountered demand for mindfulness as scale increased – and trust decreased. All about the same time. Probably due to trade. Westerners used competing (class) variants of mindfulness. Science can in fact provide mindfulness for those with the ‘ability’. Sport, Family, Work, Ritual, Wealth, Science Philosophy/Reason, Fiction, Religion. All can provide mindfulness (Disciplined thought in the face of the unknown/complexity). The principle problem of scale was creating mindfulness through trust. The only question is whether one’s form of mindfulness encouraged adaptation (philosophy > reason > science) or discouraged it (religion > abrahamism).


    Source date (UTC): 2017-11-21 08:25:00 UTC

  • How Do You Define Philosophy?

    Philosophy. Mindfulness. Dominance over the mind in the face of the unknown. Using grammar of technology. Tech(philio) vs Fiction(religion). Deflation vs Inflation. Mindfulness was necessary at ‘worry’ post-human-scales. All civ’s encountered demand for mindfulness as scale increased – and trust decreased. All about the same time. Probably due to trade. Westerners used competing (class) variants of mindfulness. Science can in fact provide mindfulness for those with the ‘ability’. Sport, Family, Work, Ritual, Wealth, Science Philosophy/Reason, Fiction, Religion. All can provide mindfulness (Disciplined thought in the face of the unknown/complexity). The principle problem of scale was creating mindfulness through trust. The only question is whether one’s form of mindfulness encouraged adaptation (philosophy > reason > science) or discouraged it (religion > abrahamism).
  • How Do You Define Philosophy?

    Philosophy. Mindfulness. Dominance over the mind in the face of the unknown. Using grammar of technology. Tech(philio) vs Fiction(religion). Deflation vs Inflation. Mindfulness was necessary at ‘worry’ post-human-scales. All civ’s encountered demand for mindfulness as scale increased – and trust decreased. All about the same time. Probably due to trade. Westerners used competing (class) variants of mindfulness. Science can in fact provide mindfulness for those with the ‘ability’. Sport, Family, Work, Ritual, Wealth, Science Philosophy/Reason, Fiction, Religion. All can provide mindfulness (Disciplined thought in the face of the unknown/complexity). The principle problem of scale was creating mindfulness through trust. The only question is whether one’s form of mindfulness encouraged adaptation (philosophy > reason > science) or discouraged it (religion > abrahamism).