(FB 1547250873 Timestamp) ZEIHAN ON AMERICA AT THE EDGE.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1547315158 Timestamp) DEFLATING TERMS BY THE MEANS OF CONSISTENCY IN THE DIMENSIONS THAT THEY MEASURE. (important) DIMENSIONS AND MEANS OF CONSISTENCY-TESTING 1. Axioms = Logic (words) : internal consistency : Declared. 2. Theories (‘laws’) = Science (actions) : external correspondence : Discovered 3. Algorithms (operations) = Testimony : Constructed. 4. Rational Choice (incentives) = Preference or Good : intuited. 5. Law (Reciprocity) = Decidability: Demonstrated. COHERENCE REQUIRES CLOSURE 1. No means of consistency-testing within any dimension provides CLOSURE. (‘incompleteness’). 2. Closure is increased only by appeal to the next higher dimension. 3. Closure is impossible for other than tautologies, but warranty of due diligence is producible by test of COHERENCE, which is CONSISTENCY in all dimensions. PROOFS? 1. A proof is a test of internal consistency. 2. A proof is therefore a test of possibility. 3. All proofs are open to falsification by appeal COHERENCE, meaning the due diligence of testing every dimension for consistency. 4. Ergo the function of logic and axioms is only to falsify the false, not prove the true. This is the ‘difficult’ part of ‘relearning’ that mathematics (positional naming) and the attempt to have logic (language) mirror one another, has led to the near universal fallacy that proof provides truth rather than due diligence against error, bias, and deceit. 5. Egro, logics FALSIFY but they do not convey truth content – except in the minority and reductio set of cases – in logic which are akin to prime numbers in mathematics: rare. (This is what Curtus Maximus is explaining via Godel). In the sense of Rothbard/Mises/Hoppe the (((fraud))) of kantian logic combined with the (((fraud))) of CONFLATION, mises attempted to conflate logic, empiricism, science, morality, and law into one ‘monopoly ‘ akin to jewish law, or kant’s attempt at secular restatement of the church’s faith – and failed. Rothbard attempted to conflate liberty with jewish libertinism. Freedom with libertinism. and thereby to license parasitism upon the commons, which is the group evolutionary strategy of his ancestors as well as women. Whether his ancestral group strategy of parasitism is genetic or cultural or a combination is something we do not know. We do however know that all his kin exhibit this behavior just as all women exhibit this behavior. Ergo, everything rothbard says is a lie. Mises might be rescued from his sophisms and pseudoscience if it were not for Rothbard and Hoppe’s defense of rothbard. But the (((Mises institute))) has done profound harm to our civilization by preserving and promoting Rothbard (rand)’s justification of libertinism, rather than the anglo saxon rights of anglo saxons: sovereignty, reciprocity, truth, duty, charity, and every (enfranchised) man a sheriff. As far as I know, the only epistemological framework is free association > hypothesis > theory > law > Failure > Repeat to revise (refine). All of the vocabulary of ‘logic’ and proof, all of which is justificationary and false, is now reduced to superstitious language. And all attempts to say ‘prove it’ are also justificationary and false. One cannot prove a truth, one can only ask for sufficient information to falsify it. And contrary to the entire history of philosophy, the principle means of falsification is deconfliction, completing scope and limits, accounting for cost, testing the possibility of action, rationality of action, and reciprocity of display word and deed. The people who invented lying are as good at lying as the people who invented truth are good at truth.
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(FB 1547435286 Timestamp) Gross adjusted household disposable income per capita
(FB 1547435286 Timestamp) Gross adjusted household disposable income per capita of OECD countries in 2017 (in U.S. dollars) WHY BRITS SEEM POOR (THEY ARE)
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(FB 1547302842 Timestamp) by Bill Joslin Compatiblism – degrees of bounded freedom. It’s about accounting for the causal chain and if the actor contributes to the causal chain (opposed to a causal chain being proof of no will). We can contribute to our causal chain because we can imagine alternate states of affairs. In that imagining we affect the causal chain. So the effect of that imagining will be varied. You can imagine via nonsense or reason – post-structuralism or post-positivism, mysticism or naturalism. You can chose, but you can’t avoid the consequences of that choice, no matter how much you imagine the state of affairs to be different than it actually is.
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(FB 1547418990 Timestamp) Knowing the deflation, operationalism, and grammars is a bit like having a superpower. And I just realized that if we teach everyone Testimonialism I won’t be the only person with the superpower…. sigh… 😉
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(FB 1547272330 Timestamp) —-“…Yet if cattle or horses or lions had hands and could draw, And could sculpt like men, then the horses would draw their gods, Like horses, and cattle like cattle; and each they would shape. Bodies of gods in the likeness, each kind, of their own.” — Xenophanes via @I_Vae_Victis_I
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(FB 1547394609 Timestamp) —“So we pray you take heed. Do not dismiss our entreaty. Our demands are right, just, possible and in the interests of our peoples. And if demanding fails we shall compel. And if we compel, we will make the Horrors of the French Revolution turn so feeble, that men will remember our prosecution for ten thousand years. For when all our ancestors that have been before, and all our descendants that have yet to be, demand our lives in their honor, we will not shirk our duty to them. And we will have no mercy in our execution.”— The Second American Declaration
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- Seattle. 1st and Yessler. Galleries, Shops. Allora’s red hair in the sun. Coffee is big. Smells Like Teen Spirit. Key Arena. Fountain. Kids. Alice in Chains Rooster. Visiting other artists. Wall was down. Tech was like printing money. Everything was cheap. Anything was possible. And we were making it possible. And if you were there and lived through it, more so than the google/fb/sf thing, more than paris and berlin, it was geek paradise. That I got to live from 1980 to 2000 … I can’t believe .. only a few people get a chance like that a century.
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(FB 1547349746 Timestamp) —“What’s your view on semiotics, Curt?”— it is in the category of marks, pictograms, character symbols, iconography, artistic composition, suggestion, advertising, propaganda: suggestion by free association, and used like numerology and astrology: untestable, and incalculable.
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(FB 1547270420 Timestamp) Who is John Mark?