FOR NEWBIES: WORKFLOW (worth repeating) (FB 1546005070 Timestamp) The way I work is by relating ideas across the spectrum in a series of shorter arguments – because I ‘whittle away’ at the stone so to speak, turning it to view it from different angles, working to gradually expose the figure (truth) below. I try to produce operational definitions in series, and to describe behavior as supply and demand using those series of definitions. Then I attempt to turn the fundamental insight into one or more aphorisms (summaries). Then to create a narrative that explains the topic and its applications. Then to weave these narratives together using the same constant language – this editing is what exhausts me and is why it takes me so long to produce a work. WORKFLOW I work from an outline of the complete scope of human thought. I work through the outline from metaphysics to group competitive strategy. Then I work with (many) sketches on FB. I move most of them to the web site. Then I collect the best of them into what I call ‘short courses’ or collections of posts. Then I take those ‘short courses’ and put them into the book. Then edit it all into an explanation. That’s my workflow. It’s actually painfully methodical. It just doesn’t look like it to the casual observer, because most people are desirous of rushing to judgment whereas i tend to exhaust a topic completely (very) before adding it to the canon. Then refine the network of concepts added to the canon once there. cheers.
Theme: Grammar
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546044530 Timestamp) —“What led you to replace Pagan with Heathen in this oath?”— A Friend Technically ‘pagan’ is the name of a christian criticism of heathens the way marxists used capitalism to criticize the middle class. Heathen means, as far as I can tell, ‘religion of the hearth’, or more correctly ‘folk religion’, or ‘natural religion’. Whereas monotheism = political religion = unnatural.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546091832 Timestamp) INSURE VS ENSURE INSURE (“institutional, guarantee of restitution upon loss, negative”) Insure means to safeguard against loss or damage, typically through the purchase of insurance to do so. If a contract stipulates that the individual must insure something the contract is stipulating that the individual must purchase insurance to safeguard that asset. ENSURE (“personal, warranty of due diligence, positive”) Ensure is very similar in that it means to make sure or guarantee something, though the specific emphasis on doing so via insurance is not there. If a contract stipulates that an individual must ensure something is taken care of there is no requirement to purchase insurance, rather the individual is to “do their best” to make sure something is taken care of.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546091832 Timestamp) INSURE VS ENSURE INSURE (“institutional, guarantee of restitution upon loss, negative”) Insure means to safeguard against loss or damage, typically through the purchase of insurance to do so. If a contract stipulates that the individual must insure something the contract is stipulating that the individual must purchase insurance to safeguard that asset. ENSURE (“personal, warranty of due diligence, positive”) Ensure is very similar in that it means to make sure or guarantee something, though the specific emphasis on doing so via insurance is not there. If a contract stipulates that an individual must ensure something is taken care of there is no requirement to purchase insurance, rather the individual is to “do their best” to make sure something is taken care of.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546134524 Timestamp) —“Just saw you table of grammars, there is enough material for ten years of study just there.”— Singular Speech Yep. Grammars, Dimensional Warranties of Due Diligence, operational language, acquisitions, propertarianism. Those sets of concepts produce a formal logic of social science, expressible not with set language, but with operational language. Like I said. There is a wonderful parsimonious elegance underneath it all. It’s beautiful. Truth is enough – and it is now possible.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546134524 Timestamp) —“Just saw you table of grammars, there is enough material for ten years of study just there.”— Singular Speech Yep. Grammars, Dimensional Warranties of Due Diligence, operational language, acquisitions, propertarianism. Those sets of concepts produce a formal logic of social science, expressible not with set language, but with operational language. Like I said. There is a wonderful parsimonious elegance underneath it all. It’s beautiful. Truth is enough – and it is now possible.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546126223 Timestamp) The structure of aphorism, and the use of aphorism, is a signal in and of itself. Western Aphorism, Chinese Koan, Scriptural Quote. Science, Reason, and Deceit.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546126631 Timestamp) You will be struck by our New Constitution in that it includes what others do not: Definitions as constants, variables, and types, and that there is far more definition, constant, variable and type, than their is prescription. This constitution states what is and what must be. What one then does with that constitution in terms of institution and procedure is then quite short – and relatively unassailable.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546116124 Timestamp) Reminder for newbs. I teach argument. In keeping with it, I have preserved this feed as a meme-free zone. If you post one, all you are doing is making me spend time deleting. Yes, I tolerate certain illustrated quotes etc. But I just delete that which is not argument. -thanks.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546126223 Timestamp) The structure of aphorism, and the use of aphorism, is a signal in and of itself. Western Aphorism, Chinese Koan, Scriptural Quote. Science, Reason, and Deceit.