Theme: Deception

Curt Doolittle updated his status.

TWO FALSEHOODS DON’T MAKE A RIGHT – SO TO SPEAK. TERM INFLATION (LOADING AND FRAMING) IS JUST FALSEHOOD

(Wiki blocked me for this comment. Stating that I’m trying to downplay the misrepresentation, rather than simply do my ordinary job of correcting ALL such misrepresentations)

I specialize in Testimony (particularly scientific testimony), and so I’m sensitive to misrepresentation by term inflation (Loading and Framing).

Misrepresentation: 1-Forgery(crime), 2-Counterfeit(Crime), 3-Fraud(crime), 4-Hoax(Attention Seeking or Practical Joke), 5-Fictionalism(pseudoscience, pseudorationalism, supernatural) 6-Propaganda(Loading, Framing, Obscuring), 7-Fiction(Entertaining Inflation or ‘Gossip’)

– A Forgery must misrepresent authorship of for the purpose of profiting from the premium in an exchange due to that authorship.
– A Counterfeit must misrepresent it’s identity (trademark, weight and measure) for the purpose of obtaining a premium on its exchange.
– A Fraud must misrepresent information by word, act or implication for the purpose of profiting from an exchange.
– A Hoax must create physical misrepresentation by suggestion for the purpose of gathering attention (marketing), providing entertainment, or humor (practical joke).
– A Fictionalism must make use of pseudoscience (failure of due diligence) or magic, idealism or sophistry, and/or the supernatural or occult.
– Propaganda must provide information of a biased or misleading nature, to promote or publicize a political objective.
– A Deceit (“deceit or gossip”) must used to load, frame, suggest, or obscure causality for the purpose of avoiding or creating harm.
– A Fiction must only entertain by coloring the information without necessarily engaging in deception.

For example:

– Michelangelo began his sculpting career by misrepresenting his early marble sculpture, Sleeping Eros as a Roman original so he could sell it at a premium – first by burying it and then digging up and ‘discovering’ – That was a Forgery.
– Alves Dos Reis forged a contract from the Banco de Portugal so that he could acquire banknotes from official printers – meaning his notes were identical to the state’s. That was a Forgery followed by Counterfeiting.
– Feed the Children and Bernie Madoff. People donated money to this religious organization with the intention of helping starving children, but it was privatized. People gave money to Bernie Madoff to invest but he create created the biggest pyramid scheme in history. These are famous frauds but not counterfeiting, or Forgery or Hoaxes.
– The Voynich Manuscript was produced (as far as we know) as a Hoax or a Fraud – but not propaganda or fiction.
– The Protocols of Zion are clearly a Hoax, and clearly Propaganda – and the most currently famous.
– The vast body of mathematics is constructed upon mathematical idealism (platonism) in which some mathematical reality exists. This is a bad habit held over from antiquity, whereas all of mathematics (measurement by positional names) consists of correspondence and a small number of rudimentary operations. That a Fictionalism.
– The founding books of the three abrahamic religions are both propaganda and fictions – and the most universal.
– Crichton’s Eaters of the Dead is a fictional account attributed to Ibn Fadlan – it is a fiction(entertainment), but not propaganda, hoax, or fraud.
– History and Record: out of necessity, histories and records are constructed by framing the complex so that it is comprehensible.