Curt Doolittle

Theme: Grammar

  • (from elsewhere) Prof Wildberger: I love that you’re trying to de-platonize math

    (from elsewhere) Prof Wildberger: I love that you’re trying to de-platonize mathematics, and return it to the sciences. Mathematical platonism uses a grammar and semantics of fiction (it’s technically a ‘Fictionalism’). And I can understand why some people have a natural tendency, out of historical bias, and out of the influence of hermeneutics (religious and scriptural interpretation) to fictionalize mathematics. In doing so they convert it from a science of measurement of constant relations in increasing dimensions into a linguistic ANALOGY – thereby obscuring (losing) the causal properties of mathematics (measurement of constant relations in increasing dimensions using positional naming). And that is the reason it’s both difficult to teach people (when it should be trivial), and forces us to rely on memorization rather than ‘understanding’. Where “understanding” means ‘in the context of existential reality, and therefore an extension of existential reality.

  • (from elsewhere) Prof Wildberger: I love that you’re trying to de-platonize math

    (from elsewhere)

    Prof Wildberger:

    I love that you’re trying to de-platonize mathematics, and return it to the sciences.

    Mathematical platonism uses a grammar and semantics of fiction (it’s technically a ‘Fictionalism’). And I can understand why some people have a natural tendency, out of historical bias, and out of the influence of hermeneutics (religious and scriptural interpretation) to fictionalize mathematics.

    In doing so they convert it from a science of measurement of constant relations in increasing dimensions into a linguistic ANALOGY – thereby obscuring (losing) the causal properties of mathematics (measurement of constant relations in increasing dimensions using positional naming).

    And that is the reason it’s both difficult to teach people (when it should be trivial), and forces us to rely on memorization rather than ‘understanding’. Where “understanding” means ‘in the context of existential reality, and therefore an extension of existential reality.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-11-21 11:03:00 UTC

  • How Do You Define Philosophy?

    Philosophy. Mindfulness. Dominance over the mind in the face of the unknown. Using grammar of technology. Tech(philio) vs Fiction(religion). Deflation vs Inflation. Mindfulness was necessary at ‘worry’ post-human-scales. All civ’s encountered demand for mindfulness as scale increased – and trust decreased. All about the same time. Probably due to trade. Westerners used competing (class) variants of mindfulness. Science can in fact provide mindfulness for those with the ‘ability’. Sport, Family, Work, Ritual, Wealth, Science Philosophy/Reason, Fiction, Religion. All can provide mindfulness (Disciplined thought in the face of the unknown/complexity). The principle problem of scale was creating mindfulness through trust. The only question is whether one’s form of mindfulness encouraged adaptation (philosophy > reason > science) or discouraged it (religion > abrahamism).

  • How Do You Define Philosophy?

    Philosophy. Mindfulness. Dominance over the mind in the face of the unknown. Using grammar of technology. Tech(philio) vs Fiction(religion). Deflation vs Inflation. Mindfulness was necessary at ‘worry’ post-human-scales. All civ’s encountered demand for mindfulness as scale increased – and trust decreased. All about the same time. Probably due to trade. Westerners used competing (class) variants of mindfulness. Science can in fact provide mindfulness for those with the ‘ability’. Sport, Family, Work, Ritual, Wealth, Science Philosophy/Reason, Fiction, Religion. All can provide mindfulness (Disciplined thought in the face of the unknown/complexity). The principle problem of scale was creating mindfulness through trust. The only question is whether one’s form of mindfulness encouraged adaptation (philosophy > reason > science) or discouraged it (religion > abrahamism).

  • HOW DO YOU DEFINE PHILOSOPHY? Philosophy. Mindfulness. Dominance over the mind i

    HOW DO YOU DEFINE PHILOSOPHY?

    Philosophy. Mindfulness. Dominance over the mind in the face of the unknown. Using grammar of technology. Tech(philio) vs Fiction(religion). Deflation vs Inflation. Mindfulness was necessary at ‘worry’ post-human-scales. All civ’s encountered demand for mindfulness as scale increased – and trust decreased. All about the same time. Probably due to trade. Westerners used competing (class) variants of mindfulness. Science can in fact provide mindfulness for those with the ‘ability’. Sport, Family, Work, Ritual, Wealth, Science Philosophy/Reason, Fiction, Religion. All can provide mindfulness (Disciplined thought in the face of the unknown/complexity). The principle problem of scale was creating mindfulness through trust. The only question is whether one’s form of mindfulness encouraged adaptation (philosophy > reason > science) or discouraged it (religion > abrahamism).

    Source date (UTC): 2017-11-21 08:25:00 UTC

  • Try to avoid stupidity in my presence. It gives me headaches. Different cultures

    Try to avoid stupidity in my presence. It gives me headaches. Different cultures do rely on different methods of argument, semantic relations, and definitions of truth. West is uniquely empirical: externally correspondent. All others rely on some version of wisdom literature.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-11-20 04:16:27 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/932462620166238213

    Reply addressees: @AgoristRobot @HuffleRuff @Voltaire1778__8

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  • Try to avoid stupidity in my presence. It gives me headaches. Different cultures

    Try to avoid stupidity in my presence. It gives me headaches. Different cultures do rely on different methods of argument, semantic relations, and definitions of truth. West is uniquely empirical: externally correspondent. All others rely on some version of wisdom literature.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-11-19 19:52:58 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/932335912498982919

  • Try to avoid stupidity in my presence. It gives me headaches. (Different culture

    Try to avoid stupidity in my presence. It gives me headaches. (Different cultures do rely on different methods of argument, semantic relations, and definitions of truth. West is uniquely empirical. All others rely on some version of wisdom literature.) https://twitter.com/Darth_Nox5/status/932112049760485376

  • Grammar: the organization and expression of constant relations

    Grammar: the organization and expression of constant relations.

  • Grammar: the organization and expression of constant relations

    Grammar: the organization and expression of constant relations.