Curt Doolittle

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  • “My view is that concepts are open-ended classifications based on leaving detail

    “My view is that concepts are open-ended classifications based on leaving details unspecified. They are densely stitched together through relationships of similarity and context. This ties back to Newton’s errors and the fact that there is no “bang on” infinite. Newton’s scientific writings are infected with a sense of the mystical, which should not surprise anyone who has studied Newton in depth. He made deductions from phenomena that are pure nonsense and are more within the realm of pseudo-science.” — Michael Phillip

    Well said. Very. Thank you.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-03 02:23:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://www.psychologytoday.com/print/24014

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-02 16:31:00 UTC

  • READ

    http://www.unz.com/runz/china-chinese-eugenics/MUST READ

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-02 08:44:00 UTC

  • You know. If you express ideas in operational terms then the mysticism in scienc

    You know. If you express ideas in operational terms then the mysticism in science that so enraptures progressives disappears.

    I am not sure that the language of experiential analogy masquerading as secularism is not even worse than the language of mythological metaphor. Although i am certainly willing to admit that authoritarian scriptural religion is worse than either. The results speak for themselves.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-02 04:21:00 UTC

  • UTILITY DOES NOT SANCTION IMMORALITY Many immoral things are convenient. The rea

    UTILITY DOES NOT SANCTION IMMORALITY

    Many immoral things are convenient. The reason we refrain from them despite their convenience, is that when we agree to cooperate with others, we agree to avoid exporting costs onto them as individuals, and we agree not to pollute the commons and therefore export costs onto them as a group.

    There is no difference between polluting a stream, and composing and publishing a theory in non-operational (particularly experiential) language. Both are immoral.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-02 01:35:00 UTC

  • “Had Newton realized that infinity is merely a mathematical concept and cannot e

    —“Had Newton realized that infinity is merely a mathematical concept and cannot exist in nature, he would not have held onto absolute time.”— Michael Philip

    I think we should refer to infinity as a metaphor because a ‘concept’ is an experiential term not operational. But other than that, Michael’s observation is indicative of the catastrophic propagation of destructive (immoral) ideas into the commons by the consequences of non-operational definitions.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-02 01:31:00 UTC

  • (Profound) While a failure to rely upon operational definitions in mathematics,

    (Profound)

    While a failure to rely upon operational definitions in mathematics, logic and philosophy may only be immoral, and in science unethical – in economics, politics and law it is criminal.

    In Mathematics avoiding operationalism merely perpetuates an error; in logic and philosophy it is deceptive of both others and one’s self; in science wastes others’ time. But in economics, politics and law, failure to use operationalism creates theft.

    That is the answer to the riddle Mises, Rothbard, and Hoppe couldn’t solve in economics and ethics. Nor Hayek and Popper and their followers in politics and philosophy. But then, neither did Bridgman and his followers in science, nor Brouwer and his followers in math. I don’t think the long list ending with Kripke solved it either in logic.

    One cannot use this heavily loaded term ‘true’ as other than analogy without a constructive knowledge of its meaning. And the only meaning that is constructively possible is testimony: performative truth. All else is merely proof. And the quaint linguistic contrivance that conflates the most parsimonious possible theory with testimony is, much like multitudinous abuses of the verb to-be, nothing more than a means by which we obscure our ignorance as a means of making mere analogies as a substitute for truth claims. Only constructive proofs demonstrate that one possesses the knowledge to make a truth claim. Everything else is merely analogy.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-01 13:21:00 UTC

  • READING There may not be a revolution but there certainly can be a civil war

    http://www.garynorth.com/public/12619.cfmWORTH READING

    There may not be a revolution but there certainly can be a civil war…

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-01 11:45:00 UTC

  • I need to hire some nice inexpensive Ukrainians to translate at least excerpts o

    I need to hire some nice inexpensive Ukrainians to translate at least excerpts of my website posts…

    Hmmmm…..

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-01 11:37:00 UTC

  • ORDER OF MALE PRIORITIES (from the data) 1) To be desired 2) To be respected 3)

    ORDER OF MALE PRIORITIES (from the data)

    1) To be desired

    2) To be respected

    3) To be loved

    Interesting.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-01 08:12:00 UTC