—“Personally I think a semantically commensurable language creates a problem of cost, but alas we must bear costs.”—Micah Pezdirtz
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-30 13:01:00 UTC
Theme: Grammar
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“Metaphor: low resolution vs. E-prime: high resolution”—Micah Pezdirtz
—“Metaphor: low resolution vs. E-prime: high resolution”—Micah Pezdirtz
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-30 09:32:00 UTC
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“One of my philosophy professors said, it’s not that you can’t use analogy and m
—“One of my philosophy professors said, it’s not that you can’t use analogy and metaphor to express some difficult ideas, but eventually you have to actually tell us what you MEAN. We will insist on that point.”—Daniel Roland Anderson
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-30 09:01:00 UTC
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IMPERIALISM VS COLONIALISM (from elsewhere) I don’t make mistakes. It’s my job.
IMPERIALISM VS COLONIALISM
(from elsewhere)
I don’t make mistakes. It’s my job. It’s a dirty job policing sophists. But someone’s gotta do it.
im·pe·ri·al·ism[imˈpirēəˌlizəm]
NOUN
a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
co·lo·ni·al·ism
[kəˈlōnēəˌlizəm]
NOUN
the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 12:16:00 UTC
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THE FORMAT OF POSTS – A STYLE GUIDE 1 – A POST ————————– THIS TITLE MEANS I WROT
THE FORMAT OF POSTS – A STYLE GUIDE
1 – A POST
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THIS TITLE MEANS I WROTE IT FOR YOU TO READ AS AN ARGUMENT
(this cues you to important stuff)
And this is the body text here.
Particularly if I break it into paragraphs.
––“this is quoting someone else”––
—this is quoting myself—
… this
… … is a
… … … series that you might want to learn.
|SERIES|: This > Is > A > Dimensional > Definition
SUBHEADING
And more text goes here. Subheadings cue you to the content.
Signature Line
I use the signature line for myself. So that I can search for the posts I want to publish on my web site later. So they are sort of a ‘stamp of approval’.
2 – A NOTE OR SKETCH
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this doesn’t have header, isn’t broken into paragraphs, and doesn’t even use init-caps, so it’s just a record from elsewhere or quick thought or observation, or a work in progress – rumination.
3 – A PERSONAL OPINION
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(this doesn’t have a header, is in parenthesis and in all lower case, which means it’s possibly something to ignore … because it’s not an argument. it’s just an opinion or feeling.)
4 – A DIARY ENTRY
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(diary entry)
this is something I wrote for myself that is unfiltered, and likely includes very personal feelings of my own, or on the state of my thinking, and not something that you will probably want to read unless the psychology that I operate under is of some interest to you or other.
5 — ON STYLE
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Bold to allow for those of us who read quickly to scan by keywords.
Capitals: for names of Ideas, like “Rationalism”, “Sovereignty”, “Propertarianism”, or Neologisms, or to alert you to disambiguation (redefinitions).
Parentheticals “(…)”: to bridge operational(technical) and meaningful(familiar) terms, or to limit interpretation.
Series and Lists : a sequence of definitions representing a spectrum of terms. The use of series deflates, increases precision, and defeats conflation. First exposure to the methodology’s use and repetition of series tends to both be the most obvious and most helpful of the techniques.
Constructions : tracing the path of the development of ideas from primitive to current constructions.
Algorithms : general processes for the construction of deflations.
Wordy Prose.
– Analytic Philosophy is, of necessity, WORDY.
– Operational Language is, of necessity, WORDY.
– Programming Algorithms is, of necessity, WORDY.
– Law, whether Contractual, Legislative, or Constitutional, is WORDY.
– Algorithmic Natural Law is of necessity, WORDY.
Technical Languages evolve to speak precisely. Precise language contains technical terms and is wordy. Why, if all the other sciences require technical language, would we think that speaking technically in the science of cooperation is not going to be wordy?
Well, it’s going to be wordy.
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Closing:
I work in public, partly to conduct experiments. I am personally open in public because this prevents people attributing psychological motivations to me that I don’t have. I create conflict in order to run tests. The purpose of running a test is to attempt to create a proof.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 07:59:00 UTC
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ON STYLE Bold to allow for those of us who read quickly to scan by keywords. Cap
ON STYLE
Bold to allow for those of us who read quickly to scan by keywords.
Capitals for names of Ideas, like “Rationalism”, “Sovereignty”, “Propertarianism”.
Parentheticals to bridge operational(technical) and meaningful(familiar) terms, or to limit interpretation.
Series and Lists : a sequence of definitions representing a spectrum of terms. The use of series deflates, increases precision, and defeats conflation. First exposure to the methodology’s use and repetition of series tends to both be the most obvious and most helpful of the techniques.
Constructions : tracing the path of the development of ideas from primitive to current constructions.
Algorithms : general processes for the construction of deflations.
Wordy Prose.
– Analytic Philosophy is, of necessity, WORDY.
– Operational Language is, of necessity, WORDY.
– Programming Algorithms is, of necessity, WORDY.
– Law, whether Contractual, Legislative, or Constitutional, is WORDY.
– Algorithmic Natural Law is of necessity, WORDY.
Technical Languages evolve to speak precisely. Precise language contains technical terms and is wordy. Why, if all the other sciences require technical language, would we think that speaking technically in the science of cooperation is not going to be wordy?
Well, it’s going to be wordy.
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 07:53:00 UTC
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well that doesnt even tell me we are referring to the same thing
well that doesnt even tell me we are referring to the same thing.
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-29 01:49:27 UTC
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THE UNIQUENESS OF THE GRAMMARS by Bill Joslin (new, important idea) The developm
THE UNIQUENESS OF THE GRAMMARS
by Bill Joslin
(new, important idea)
The development of various grammars of disambiguation defines the uniqueness of the west.
A culture of martial raiders requires explicit technologies for maintain peaceful coexistence among dangerous people, as well as requires truthful reporting of battle situations for raiding to be successful.
This leads to social value on truth – truthful reporting (reliability) and honest interactions to prevent in-group conflict (honesty). The result being the innovation of OATH (proto-contract) and competency (meritocracy). This I see as the initial step (or early) step toward disambiguation. Disambiguation of reporting on intention and ability.
Incremental stages of growth for European peoples can be seen as the progress of disambiguation.
Common law : Disambiguation of accountability and disambiguation of reciprocal consequences (punishment fit the crime)
Contract: Disambiguation of terms of agreement and limits to commitment (Trade)
Institutionalization of Law : Disambiguation of the application of power over a polis i.e. rule (isolation of discretionary rule)
Science: disambiguation of external causal relations
(Propertarianism – disambiguation of human action and human conflict)
Disambiguation provides a commensurable measure in evaluating “western identity” for what belongs or doesn’t belong, or what needs to be corrected and how.
So when Abrahamists conflate religion and western civilization (christianity, Jewish contribution, secular islam), or Aesthetics (spiritualists) propose that aesthetics undergirds civilization, or linguists propose language as the means to calculate power and distribution (GA) etc… all while stating they are “for the west”, I get confused and a bit uppity.
Introduction of ambiguity is not what we do – its what we’ve been taught by those who’d see us gone or enslaved.
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-28 10:18:00 UTC
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THE UNIQUENESS OF THE GRAMMARS by Bill Joslin (new, important idea) The developm
THE UNIQUENESS OF THE GRAMMARS
by Bill Joslin
(new, important idea)
The development of various grammars of disambiguation defines the uniqueness of the west.
A culture of martial raiders requires explicit technologies for maintain peaceful coexistence among dangerous people, as well as requires truthful reporting of battle situations for raiding to be successful.
This leads to social value on truth – truthful reporting (reliability) and honest interactions to prevent in-group conflict (honesty). The result being the innovation of OATH (proto-contract) and competency (meritocracy). This I see as the initial step (or early) step toward disambiguation. Disambiguation of reporting on intention and ability.
Incremental stages of growth for European peoples can be seen as the progress of disambiguation.
Common law : Disambiguation of accountability and disambiguation of reciprocal consequences (punishment fit the crime)
Contract: Disambiguation of terms of agreement and limits to commitment (Trade)
Institutionalization of Law : Disambiguation of the application of power over a polis i.e. rule (isolation of discretionary rule)
Science: disambiguation of external causal relations
(Propertarianism – disambiguation of human action and human conflict)
Disambiguation provides a commensurable measure in evaluating “western identity” for what belongs or doesn’t belong, or what needs to be corrected and how.
So when Abrahamists conflate religion and western civilization (christianity, Jewish contribution, secular islam), or Aesthetics (spiritualists) propose that aesthetics undergirds civilization, or linguists propose language as the means to calculate power and distribution (GA) etc… all while stating they are “for the west”, I get confused and a bit uppity.
Introduction of ambiguity is not what we do – its what we’ve been taught by those who’d see us gone or enslaved.
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-28 10:16:00 UTC
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I use a large vocabulary, but the number of definitions-in-series I rely upon is
I use a large vocabulary, but the number of definitions-in-series I rely upon is far smaller than it appears. Memorizing them is not all that difficult. It’s understanding how to use them in argument without relying on your past ‘fuzzy use of terms’ that’s hard.
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-24 18:33:37 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1066399455782600704