Curt Doolittle

Form: Definition

  • ELI ON ALTRUISTIC PUNISHMENT —“ALTRUISTIC PUNISHMENT: “I will bear a cost in o

    ELI ON ALTRUISTIC PUNISHMENT

    —“ALTRUISTIC PUNISHMENT: “I will bear a cost in order to impose a cost on someone for imposing costs on others.”

    Directly, no one wins, it’s a lose/lose/lose; costs all the way around.

    Indirectly, we all benefit from the maintenance of a normative commons that discourages people from imposing costs, negative externalities, on others or refraining from contributing to benefits, positive externalities, which are shared.

    This is a common human behavior and it is impossible to understand human behavior, or the evolution of societies and polities, without understanding altruistic punishment.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-10 09:22:00 UTC

  • A logical statement, in formal language statement is not semantically bound (cor

    A logical statement, in formal language statement is not semantically bound (correspondent with reality); it is an axiomatic argument and is merely internally consistent. The only information present is that stated in the axioms.

    A statement in informal language *is* semantically bound (correspondent with reality). There is more information present in informal languages than in formal languages.

    A statement in normative ‘natural’ language is not logically bound, or semantically bound, but merely a matter of useful communication – short hand. There is information outside of the statements necessary to interpret them.

    A statement in colloquial language consists of a mixture of natural and analogical symbols neither logically, correspondently, nor normatively bound. There is both information and structure outside of the statements and structure necessary to interpret them.

    Operational language is an informal language (correspondent with reality) bound not internally, but by existence. It is a higher standard than natural langauge.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-05 11:58:00 UTC

  • THE PURPOSE OF CRITIQUE – CONSUMPTION So, the purpose of critique is to prevent

    THE PURPOSE OF CRITIQUE – CONSUMPTION

    So, the purpose of critique is to prevent us from constructing our amazing commons by enticing every possible individual to increase consumption rather than save and invest in the commons. You see, declining prices also are part of the commons. Wealth is not created by consumption, but by increases in production that are captured in the commons. In other words, Westerners act as shareholders. We did not need to invent the corporation, because we have lived it for 6000 years.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-05 02:44:00 UTC

  • Karl Brooks wins the Propertarian smart of the month award. 🙂 —– Experience

    Karl Brooks wins the Propertarian smart of the month award. 🙂

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    Experience – Apprehending sensory or mental events.

    Thinking – The mental process of reviewing what one knows and integrating that knowledge to create new knowledge or to calculate a probable result.

    Reasoning – Using heuristics to aid thinking.

    Rationalism – The belief that deductive reasoning, starting from either a priori intuitive knowledge or an established premise, is the optimum heuristic for gaining new knowledge.

    Scientific Descriptions – Descriptions of results obtained through the operations known as the scientific method.

    Operational Definitions – Defining discreet actions and results, labeling them with a unique name, and arranging them in a specific order. A cumulative process where each ordered set is also labeled with a unique name. Used to assemble complex constructions which demonstrate an empirically constructed truth, or identify component failure leading to falsification, of a specific ordered set.

    Analytic Rationalism – Existence exists. (Ok, that’s just a stab at it. Don’t know about this one, I know the difference between and analytic and synthetic proposition, but have not come across the term used with rationalism).

    Formal Logic – A specific language construction that allows inferences to be followed. The two branches I know of are syllogistic and symbolic. Here’s a syllogism I wrote about 10 years ago:

    God is truth

    Truth is love

    God is love.

    You’re scientism friends with love that one (heh)!

    Symbolic logic is the use of variables:

    A = B

    B = C

    A = C.

    Mathematics – Synthetic propositions expressed in symbolic logic.

    Arithmetic – Calculations using uniquely named components that have physical correspondence (real numbers).

    Naming – Unique identifying label.

    —-

    Karl Brooks (Rational numbers, not real numbers).

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-04 04:37:00 UTC

  • THE CHOICE OF TERMS: “TESTIMONIAL TRUTH” I was going to go with performative tru

    THE CHOICE OF TERMS: “TESTIMONIAL TRUTH”

    I was going to go with performative truth, which is an established term, but which applies to formal languages and is already heavily loaded within the analytic movement. So I’m going to go with “Testimonial Truth” because it is easily understood and not encumbered by existing loadings.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-01 07:46:00 UTC

  • ABBREVIATED GLOSSARY LIST (list of some key terms) ARISTOCRATIC EGALITARIANISM A

    ABBREVIATED GLOSSARY LIST

    (list of some key terms)

    ARISTOCRATIC EGALITARIANISM

    Aristocracy. Aristocratic Egalitarianism (open entry). Enfranchisement(voluntary). Reciprocal Insurance. Truth-Telling. Homogeneity. Militia and Regiment.

    -negatives-

    Liberty vs License or Permission.

    KEY TERMS FOR PROPERTARIAN ETHICS AND POLITICS

    Trust. High Trust. Transaction Costs. Common Law. Moral spectrum: Criminal,Ethical,Moral,Conspiratorial. Property Mirrors Morality. Competing Insurance Organizations. Calculability, Rationally Calculable. Formal (procedural) and Informal(normative) Institutions. Fully Informed, Warrantied, Voluntary Exchange Free Of Externality.

    -negatives-

    Pooling and Laundering (numbers). Obfuscation, Obscurantism, Verbalism (words). Overloading, Framing and Loading (content). Golden Rule(authoritarian) vs Silver Rule(egalitarian). Pathological Altruism. Monopoly Insurer vs Polycentric Insurance.

    -tangents-

    The Pack Response. Power vs Weakness.

    KEY TERMS FOR TESTIMONIAL PHILOSOPHY

    Realism. Scientific Realism. Performative Truth. Testimonial Truth vs Platonic Truth. Testimony. Witness. Empiricism for observation. Operationalism for existence. Instrumentalism for reducing imperceptible and incomparable to perceptible and comparable.

    Calculable vs Computable, Axiomatic and Internally consistent vs Descriptive and externally correspondent. Existence Proof. “Logics” as instruments. Information vs Imagination. Decidability.

    TERMS OF CRITICISM OF ROTHBARDIAN AND MISESIAN IDEAS

    Libertinism not libertarianism. NAP under IVP. Ghetto Ethics, Crusoe Ethics. Fallacy of aggression. Low trust. High Transaction Costs. Insufficient For Formation Of A Voluntary Polity. Jews and Gypsies.

    (Must go to work now….)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-01 05:57:00 UTC

  • Demonstrating Truthful Speech

    —“if you produce an operational definition then you can be shown to have spoken truthfully, (given witness) even if the truth content of your theory cannot be determined to be true – ever. Moreover, that if you do not produce an operational definition of your argument, then we cannot tell you are speaking truthfully or whether you are engaging in deception, or because of your lack of discipline and diligence you are committing error. “—

  • Demonstrating Truthful Speech

    —“if you produce an operational definition then you can be shown to have spoken truthfully, (given witness) even if the truth content of your theory cannot be determined to be true – ever. Moreover, that if you do not produce an operational definition of your argument, then we cannot tell you are speaking truthfully or whether you are engaging in deception, or because of your lack of discipline and diligence you are committing error. “—

  • Operationalism Isn't A Truth Test, It's A Test Of Truth Telling. 🙂

    (worth repeating) From my notes….

    –“An operational definition is produced by defining a process of operationalization and recording the results of operating that process; in order to define a variable, term, or object in terms of a set of tests needed to determine its existence, duration, and quantity or quality. Operational definitions define changes in state as those operations necessary to change state; define unobservable entities concretely in terms of the physical and mental operations used to measure them; and ensures that the definition of each observable and unobservable entity has been uniquely identified with the instrumentation used to define it. Just as the operational naming of numbers via positional numbering gives a unique name to every number, this process of operationalization gives a unique name to an extant entity consisting of the definition for that step, rather than consisting of an analogy that approximates it in some form or other. Operationalism is a process of granting unique names.”–

    This ensures that we are discussing names of extant entities rather than allegories, functions, experiences, or imaginary projections. Operationalism is not a truth test, it is a test of truth telling.

  • Operationalism Isn’t A Truth Test, It’s A Test Of Truth Telling. 🙂

    (worth repeating) From my notes….

    –“An operational definition is produced by defining a process of operationalization and recording the results of operating that process; in order to define a variable, term, or object in terms of a set of tests needed to determine its existence, duration, and quantity or quality. Operational definitions define changes in state as those operations necessary to change state; define unobservable entities concretely in terms of the physical and mental operations used to measure them; and ensures that the definition of each observable and unobservable entity has been uniquely identified with the instrumentation used to define it. Just as the operational naming of numbers via positional numbering gives a unique name to every number, this process of operationalization gives a unique name to an extant entity consisting of the definition for that step, rather than consisting of an analogy that approximates it in some form or other. Operationalism is a process of granting unique names.”–

    This ensures that we are discussing names of extant entities rather than allegories, functions, experiences, or imaginary projections. Operationalism is not a truth test, it is a test of truth telling.