Curt Doolittle

Form: Definition

  • MANKIND, CIVILIZATION, CULTURE, SOCIETY, FAMILY, INDIVIDUAL Been trying to work

    MANKIND, CIVILIZATION, CULTURE, SOCIETY, FAMILY, INDIVIDUAL

    Been trying to work on constructing Propertarian definitions for these terms. Ran across this gem, that is very, very close.

    —“Civilization is fundamentally a cultural infrastructure of information and knowledge that serves survival and continuity. What distinguishes a civilization from a culture is that this infrastructure, having reached a critical level of complexity, becomes autonomous from constituent cities, nations, and empires. In ordinary cultures, the passing of information and knowledge may depend upon imitation or oral communication; in civilizations, this cultural memory, etched into clay or drawn into papyrus, takes on a life of its own”— (Andrew Bosworth, “The Genetics of Civilization: An Empirical Classification of Civilizations Based on Writing Systems, Comparative Civilizations Review, 2003, 49:9).

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-27 04:18:00 UTC

  • THE DEFINITION OF “OFFENDED” —“Offended does not mean harmed, it means warned.

    THE DEFINITION OF “OFFENDED”

    —“Offended does not mean harmed, it means warned.”— Robyn Harte-Bunting

    To offend is to warn. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-25 01:15:00 UTC

  • PSEUDOSCIENCE:—“The failure to warranty that you have sufficiently laundered e

    PSEUDOSCIENCE:—“The failure to warranty that you have sufficiently laundered error, imagination, bias, wishful thinking and deception from your theories (statements), leaving only existential information, free of projection, as truth candidates.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-24 11:53:00 UTC

  • A Hierarchy of Truths

    (worth repeating) [A] hierarchy of Truths:

    1. True enough to imagine a conceptual relationship
    2. True enough for me to feel good about myself.
    3. True enough for me to take actions that produce positive results.
    4. True enough for me to not cause others to react negatively to me.
    5. True enough to resolve a conflict without subjective opinion among my fellow people with similar values.
    6. True enough to resolve a conflict without subjective opinion across different peoples with different values.
    7. True regardless of all opinions or perspectives.
    8. Tautologically true: in that the two things are equal.

  • A Hierarchy of Truths

    (worth repeating) [A] hierarchy of Truths:

    1. True enough to imagine a conceptual relationship
    2. True enough for me to feel good about myself.
    3. True enough for me to take actions that produce positive results.
    4. True enough for me to not cause others to react negatively to me.
    5. True enough to resolve a conflict without subjective opinion among my fellow people with similar values.
    6. True enough to resolve a conflict without subjective opinion across different peoples with different values.
    7. True regardless of all opinions or perspectives.
    8. Tautologically true: in that the two things are equal.

  • A HIERARCHY OF TRUTHS (worth repeating) A hierarchy of truth tests: True enough

    A HIERARCHY OF TRUTHS

    (worth repeating)

    A hierarchy of truth tests:

    True enough to imagine a conceptual relationship

    True enough for me to feel good about myself.

    True enough for me to take actions that produce positive results.

    True enough for me to not cause others to react negatively to me.

    True enough to resolve a conflict without subjective opinion among my fellow people with similar values.

    True enough to resolve a conflict without subjective opinion across different peoples with different values.

    True regardless of all opinions or perspectives.

    Tautologically true: in that the two things are equal.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-20 13:33:00 UTC

  • HBD-DEFINITION (worth repeating) HUMAN BIO-DIVERSITY: “The study of heritable hu

    HBD-DEFINITION

    (worth repeating)

    HUMAN BIO-DIVERSITY: “The study of heritable human genetic differences and the variation in distribution of those differences within human populations that show affinity for one another. And where those affinities express themselves as political, social, familial, and personal institutions, behaviors, abilities and preferences. And where those expressions of differences have economic, institutional, and normative consequences, and where those consequences cause economic and political competition and conflict. HBD is an attempt to understand the source of differences in modes and methods of human cooperation due to biological and normative differences.” – Curt Doolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-20 09:37:00 UTC

  • TRUTH DEFINITIONS Added: Intuition: (sentimental expression) – an uncritical, un

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2015/05/29/definitions-truth/UPDATED TRUTH DEFINITIONS

    Added:

    Intuition: (sentimental expression) – an uncritical, uncriticized, response to information that expresses a measure of existing biases (priors).

    Preference (rational expression) : a justification of one’s biases (wants).

    Opinion: (justificationism) – a justified uncritical statement given the limits of one’s knowledge about external questions.

    Position: (criticism) – a theoretical statement that survives one’s available criticisms about external questions.

    Demonstrated Preference: – Evidence of intuition, preference, opinion, and position as demonstrated by your actions, independent of your statements.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-18 04:55:00 UTC

  • TECHNIQUE: JUSTIFICATION (MORAL) AND CRITICISM (AMORAL) You can Justify your sta

    TECHNIQUE: JUSTIFICATION (MORAL) AND CRITICISM (AMORAL)

    You can Justify your statements (as moral) if I trust you, and Criticize your statements (as scientific) if I don’t – or more importantly, if I cannot. Or worse, if it is not a matter of honesty but a matter of error and bias.

    A jury cannot tell the truth of things, it can only determine if you acted rationally given the information at your disposal (operational test of believability of testimony given one’s of incentives), and whether your testimony corresponds with the testimony of others.

    The intellectual disciplines, whether hard science or lacking hard science, all operate by the same process: testimony (publishing).

    Justification (positive tests) evolved out of moral justification: adherence to norms and rules and assumptions.

    Criticism (negative tests) evolved out of scientific criticism: tests of the limits of norms, rules and assumptions.

    Justification is understandable for those things at human scale that we can sympathetically test by experience, and Criticism is necessary for those things we cannot sympathetically test, are not at human scale, and we cannot sympathetically test by experience.

    This is because in matters of morals and norms we are chiefly looking for malfeasance: deceit.

    And in matters of science we are chiefly looking for error and cognitive bias.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-18 02:02:00 UTC

  • WHICH DO YOU RELY UPON? NAME: – – – – UNIQUE IDENTIFIER FOR A REPEATABLE SEQUENC

    WHICH DO YOU RELY UPON?

    NAME:

    – – – – UNIQUE IDENTIFIER FOR A REPEATABLE SEQUENCE OF OPERATIONS

    DESCRIPTION:

    – – – – ACTOR (OPERATIONS / INTENTIONS)

    – – – – EXPERIENCER (EXPERIENCES / ASSUMPTIONS OF ACTOR)

    – – – – OBSERVER (OBSERVATIONS / ASSUMPTIONS OF ACTOR / EXPER.)

    ANALOGY:

    – – – – P.O.V. Actor, Exp, Observer, or Conflated?

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-15 06:16:00 UTC