Curt Doolittle

Form: Definition

  • WHAT IS CRITICAL RATIONALISM? Critical Rationalism is an epistemology developed

    WHAT IS CRITICAL RATIONALISM?

    Critical Rationalism is an epistemology developed for scientific inquiry. It is the inverse of justificationary rationalism.

    ASSERTIONS:

    1) That justificationism tells us us nothing about truth content (you can support something as much as you want but that does not make it true.)

    2) That the means of creating an hypothesis are irrelevant. Instead, if hypothesis survives all possible criticism, it remains a truth candidate.

    3) That the evolutionary sequence: intuition, hypothesis, theory, law, and tautology applies universally, and that justificationary language is merely false.

    4) That even if we identify a very parsimonious truth candidate with broad explanatory power, we may never know if it is the most parsimonious truth candidate possible (“the truth”).

    5) That we cannot choose between the likelihood of competing theories (“critical preference”). (I see this as a guiding logical or moral principle but not an empirical one.)

    SUMMARY

    One’s testimony (promise of truth) can rely upon:

    ……..1) Justification: An Impersonal Proof of Truth;

    –or–

    ……..2) Criticism: A Personal Warranty against imaginary content, error, bias, wishful thinking, and deception.

    Since the first is impossible, we are left with the second.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev Ukraine (London)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-19 08:35:00 UTC

  • “OVERSING IS AN ERP FOR TASKS” The organization and facilitation of collaborativ

    “OVERSING IS AN ERP FOR TASKS”

    The organization and facilitation of collaborative white collar production.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-19 02:59:00 UTC

  • What Is A Unique Characteristic Of Capitalism As An Economic System?

    The voluntary organization of production.

    https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-is-a-unique-characteristic-of-capitalism-as-an-economic-system

  • What Is A Unique Characteristic Of Capitalism As An Economic System?

    The voluntary organization of production.

    https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-is-a-unique-characteristic-of-capitalism-as-an-economic-system

  • All moral assertions are reducible to statements of property rights of one form

    All moral assertions are reducible to statements of property rights of one form or another.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-10 10:59:06 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/619460832041304064

    Reply addressees: @SouthernLady328 @randiego2 @voxdotcom

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/619460644878876672

    IN REPLY TO:

    Unknown author

    @SouthernLady328 @randiego2 @voxdotcom So are you saying that morality does not construct an economy for the production of cooperation?

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/619460644878876672

    IN REPLY TO:

    @curtdoolittle

    @SouthernLady328 @randiego2 @voxdotcom So are you saying that morality does not construct an economy for the production of cooperation?

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/619460644878876672

  • Definition: Capitalism Refers to a Bias within Government, Not a System of Government.

    [A] couple of thoughts for you:
    GOVERNMENT Is an organization for the purpose of producing commons. In practice that may mean Commons for a few. In practice that may mean Commons for some. In practice that may mean Commons for all. 
    PRODUCTION
    Capitalism isn’t a form of government.
    It’s often inarticulately referred to as an economic system (god knows what that means).
    But operationally, it’s a means of voluntarily organizing production using private property, contract, money, prices, and interest.  
    ORGANIZATION
    We can organize production voluntarily(market capitalism),
    We can organize production semi-voluntarily(mixed economy),
    or We can organize production involuntarily(socialism/slavery).
    DIVIDENDS
    We can leave individuals with all of the proceeds (no commons).
    We can leave the individuals with most of the proceeds (some provision for commons).
    We can leave individuals the minimum proceeds necessary to preserve the incentives required to voluntarily organize production. We can never let the individuals see the proceeds of their production (socialism, slavery).
    In practice all economies are mixed. Out of necessity.  The current attempt at ‘maximizing taxation’ is an attempt to determine the maximum takings that can be appropriated by the government before the incentive to cooperate fails to allow for the rational formation of the voluntary organization of production.  (In other words, they are looking to reproduce slavery.)
    A BIAS
    When we say ‘capitalism’ we are referring to a bias in favor of either the voluntary means of organization, the voluntary means of distributing dividends, or both.AXIS (A Better Nolan Chart):   Organization: capitalism<—->mixed<—->slavery
    vs Distribution: meritocratic (liberty)<—->utilitarian<—>equalitarian(communism) vs Decision: authoritarian<——->republican<——->democratic

    Source: Frequently Asked Questions |

  • Definition: Capitalism Refers to a Bias within Government, Not a System of Government.

    [A] couple of thoughts for you:
    GOVERNMENT Is an organization for the purpose of producing commons. In practice that may mean Commons for a few. In practice that may mean Commons for some. In practice that may mean Commons for all. 
    PRODUCTION
    Capitalism isn’t a form of government.
    It’s often inarticulately referred to as an economic system (god knows what that means).
    But operationally, it’s a means of voluntarily organizing production using private property, contract, money, prices, and interest.  
    ORGANIZATION
    We can organize production voluntarily(market capitalism),
    We can organize production semi-voluntarily(mixed economy),
    or We can organize production involuntarily(socialism/slavery).
    DIVIDENDS
    We can leave individuals with all of the proceeds (no commons).
    We can leave the individuals with most of the proceeds (some provision for commons).
    We can leave individuals the minimum proceeds necessary to preserve the incentives required to voluntarily organize production. We can never let the individuals see the proceeds of their production (socialism, slavery).
    In practice all economies are mixed. Out of necessity.  The current attempt at ‘maximizing taxation’ is an attempt to determine the maximum takings that can be appropriated by the government before the incentive to cooperate fails to allow for the rational formation of the voluntary organization of production.  (In other words, they are looking to reproduce slavery.)
    A BIAS
    When we say ‘capitalism’ we are referring to a bias in favor of either the voluntary means of organization, the voluntary means of distributing dividends, or both.AXIS (A Better Nolan Chart):   Organization: capitalism<—->mixed<—->slavery
    vs Distribution: meritocratic (liberty)<—->utilitarian<—>equalitarian(communism) vs Decision: authoritarian<——->republican<——->democratic

    Source: Frequently Asked Questions |

  • Critique vs Criticism

    [C]RITIQUE VS CRITICISM


    – Critique is a cosmopolitan discipline(as in Culture of Critique).
    – Criticism is a scientific discipline (as in Popperian Criticism).
    – Criticism is necessary in order to determine whether a theory survives attempts to falsify it. Critique is a means of loading, framing, framing, overloading, and constructing suggestion by means of deceit.

    Moralizing is very different from constructing models of transfers to determine whether thefts have occurred.

    –“Are correct incentives what others have called the kool-aid?”–


    Correct incentives are those that do not create hazards thereby encouraging parasitism (involuntary transfer), but instead construct incentives for productive voluntary transfers. The counter proposition is that deceit and parasitism are somehow objective ‘goods’, rather than providing a disincentive for cooperation, increasing transaction costs, lower trust, lower economic velocity, lower production and lower consumption. In order to counter this argument one would have to provide a different method of decidabily in the conduct of human interactions. (which will be very difficult)

    —“write as more idealistic than moralistic, “—


    Well I don’t have to think of it ‘like’ anything, I can categorize it as analogical appeal to subjective preference rather than operation description without appeal to subjective preference.

    Source: Curt Doolittle

  • Critique vs Criticism

    [C]RITIQUE VS CRITICISM


    – Critique is a cosmopolitan discipline(as in Culture of Critique).
    – Criticism is a scientific discipline (as in Popperian Criticism).
    – Criticism is necessary in order to determine whether a theory survives attempts to falsify it. Critique is a means of loading, framing, framing, overloading, and constructing suggestion by means of deceit.

    Moralizing is very different from constructing models of transfers to determine whether thefts have occurred.

    –“Are correct incentives what others have called the kool-aid?”–


    Correct incentives are those that do not create hazards thereby encouraging parasitism (involuntary transfer), but instead construct incentives for productive voluntary transfers. The counter proposition is that deceit and parasitism are somehow objective ‘goods’, rather than providing a disincentive for cooperation, increasing transaction costs, lower trust, lower economic velocity, lower production and lower consumption. In order to counter this argument one would have to provide a different method of decidabily in the conduct of human interactions. (which will be very difficult)

    —“write as more idealistic than moralistic, “—


    Well I don’t have to think of it ‘like’ anything, I can categorize it as analogical appeal to subjective preference rather than operation description without appeal to subjective preference.

    Source: Curt Doolittle

  • Truth: Doing The Laundry of Imagination

    [T]ruth: Laundering Error, Bias, Imaginary Content, Wishful Thinking, and Deceit from our free associations, hypothesis, theories, and laws. Source: Curt Doolittle