Theme: Grammar

  • Funny thought. Teach programming first. Then logic. Then grammar. Then rhetoric.

    Funny thought.

    Teach programming first.

    Then logic.

    Then grammar.

    Then rhetoric.

    How would that play?


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-16 11:55:00 UTC

  • Compilers are extremely unforgiving argument Opponents. Programming and database

    Compilers are extremely unforgiving argument

    Opponents.

    Programming and database development should be a prerequisite for argument. 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-16 11:51:00 UTC

  • Continental -> Postmodern Philosophy -vs- Analytic -> Testimonial Philosophy

    ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY -> POSTMODERN -> TESTIMONIAL PHILOSOPHY [Y]ou see all these damned lists I make? All these definitions I write? How I walk through long sequences of reasoning? How I’m pedantic about what information is present, and what operation alters what information? How I place great burden on your ability to maintain a chain of reasoning, instead of giving you shortcuts that rely upon what we call ‘meaning’ – existing analogies in your memory? This category of philosophy is called ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY. Now technically analytic philosophy only requires set comparisons so that statements are internally testable, and non-contradictory. In other words “Does this appear to be true, and from the information stated in the words, can I say this is false?” Analytic philosophy attempts to incorporate scientific knowledge and their goal was to raise philosophy to a science – they failed. But analytic philosophy does not attempt to require basic research into creating sets of data. So analytic philosophy is extremely useful in the analysis and criticism of probabilistic data created in the age of probability and statistics. But it is not in and of itself useful for the solution of problems. There is nothing new therein. But TESTIMONIAL PHILOSOPHY (what I write) additionally more burdensome because it requires I make sequences of testable statements constructed out of operations, taking as few liberties as possible, so that we do not get to ‘fudge’ using ‘fluffy’ or ‘obscurantist’ language. I have categorized myself as an analytic philosopher, since the term post-analytic philosophy refers to postmodern philosophy – lying. But I am settling on Testimonial Philosophy as term that separates Modern Philosophy (‘meaningful’ post-mysticism), continental (rationalisms), analytic (testable statements), postmodern (‘deception’), and Testimonial (scientifically complete using all dimensions of criticism.) Religious philosophy takes very little scientific knowledge – if any. we can say it might even be a detriment. Continental philosophy requires only that we do not rely upon mysticism or the supernatural, only that what we say is meaningful, and possibly useful. It’s a philosophy of analogy and meaning. Post analytic philosophy takes this idea further by replacing the supernatural that was created by the divine, and saying we can create the supernatural by choice and repetition: the social construction of truth. Analytic philosophy attempts to convert philosophy into a science in the hope that we can something about the world from our statements and words. But while we can test for falsehood with analytic language, we cannot divine from our words what we do not already know when we make use of them. Testimonial philosophy attempts to unite all disciplines into a single language constructed only out of truthful statements that have survived criticism by all dimensions. Truth is what survives total criticism whether we desire it or not. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • Continental -> Postmodern Philosophy -vs- Analytic -> Testimonial Philosophy

    ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY -> POSTMODERN -> TESTIMONIAL PHILOSOPHY [Y]ou see all these damned lists I make? All these definitions I write? How I walk through long sequences of reasoning? How I’m pedantic about what information is present, and what operation alters what information? How I place great burden on your ability to maintain a chain of reasoning, instead of giving you shortcuts that rely upon what we call ‘meaning’ – existing analogies in your memory? This category of philosophy is called ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY. Now technically analytic philosophy only requires set comparisons so that statements are internally testable, and non-contradictory. In other words “Does this appear to be true, and from the information stated in the words, can I say this is false?” Analytic philosophy attempts to incorporate scientific knowledge and their goal was to raise philosophy to a science – they failed. But analytic philosophy does not attempt to require basic research into creating sets of data. So analytic philosophy is extremely useful in the analysis and criticism of probabilistic data created in the age of probability and statistics. But it is not in and of itself useful for the solution of problems. There is nothing new therein. But TESTIMONIAL PHILOSOPHY (what I write) additionally more burdensome because it requires I make sequences of testable statements constructed out of operations, taking as few liberties as possible, so that we do not get to ‘fudge’ using ‘fluffy’ or ‘obscurantist’ language. I have categorized myself as an analytic philosopher, since the term post-analytic philosophy refers to postmodern philosophy – lying. But I am settling on Testimonial Philosophy as term that separates Modern Philosophy (‘meaningful’ post-mysticism), continental (rationalisms), analytic (testable statements), postmodern (‘deception’), and Testimonial (scientifically complete using all dimensions of criticism.) Religious philosophy takes very little scientific knowledge – if any. we can say it might even be a detriment. Continental philosophy requires only that we do not rely upon mysticism or the supernatural, only that what we say is meaningful, and possibly useful. It’s a philosophy of analogy and meaning. Post analytic philosophy takes this idea further by replacing the supernatural that was created by the divine, and saying we can create the supernatural by choice and repetition: the social construction of truth. Analytic philosophy attempts to convert philosophy into a science in the hope that we can something about the world from our statements and words. But while we can test for falsehood with analytic language, we cannot divine from our words what we do not already know when we make use of them. Testimonial philosophy attempts to unite all disciplines into a single language constructed only out of truthful statements that have survived criticism by all dimensions. Truth is what survives total criticism whether we desire it or not. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • There is a Reasong for Interpetive Differences in Religion

    [T]he need for interpretation is evidence of the fallacy of a statement.

    —” find it very hard to believe that you will enable you to quickly and accurately interpret the Qu’ran when there appears to be much disagreement even within adherents to the religion”—

    That’s because no amount of study will achieve anything other than self indoctrination and hypnosis into a series of internally inconsistent falsehoods. Truth is non-contradictory. Thats' how we know truth. falsehood is contradictory. That's how we know falsehood. The fact that the koran requires ‘interpretation’ because it is internally consistent, is demonstration of the fact that it is falsehood. This is one of the great ways in which falsehoods are spread. “there is great wisdom here’. Then you have to just assume so many falsehoods but never reach the truth. The reason is that there was never any truth. The entire purpose was to get you to believe a series of falsehoods by the promise of future truth. This is the secret to all religious lies. The promise of eternal life is the same. If you believe all these falsehoods, then you will find immorality. The promise of heaven is the same: if you believe all these falsehoods then you will find heaven. The promise of reward: if you believe all these falsehoods then you will find virgins awaiting you. The lie of the devil to faust and the lie of muhammed to muslims: “I will give you stuff now if you give me something later” (faust). “I will give you something later if you give me something now” (allah). Whereas the entire purpose is to use you as a useful idiot to achieve immoral ends, and never pay you the reward you have been promised, because it does not exist and never did. There are no gods that are not just stories. There are no heavens that are not just false promises. There is no good in islam. The gnostics were right. Jehova was the devil and the Talmud, The Bible, and the Koran are his most successful works. There is only one prophet who does not lie. His name is Aristotle. And the one true god is truth itself.

  • There is a Reasong for Interpetive Differences in Religion

    [T]he need for interpretation is evidence of the fallacy of a statement.

    —” find it very hard to believe that you will enable you to quickly and accurately interpret the Qu’ran when there appears to be much disagreement even within adherents to the religion”—

    That’s because no amount of study will achieve anything other than self indoctrination and hypnosis into a series of internally inconsistent falsehoods. Truth is non-contradictory. Thats' how we know truth. falsehood is contradictory. That's how we know falsehood. The fact that the koran requires ‘interpretation’ because it is internally consistent, is demonstration of the fact that it is falsehood. This is one of the great ways in which falsehoods are spread. “there is great wisdom here’. Then you have to just assume so many falsehoods but never reach the truth. The reason is that there was never any truth. The entire purpose was to get you to believe a series of falsehoods by the promise of future truth. This is the secret to all religious lies. The promise of eternal life is the same. If you believe all these falsehoods, then you will find immorality. The promise of heaven is the same: if you believe all these falsehoods then you will find heaven. The promise of reward: if you believe all these falsehoods then you will find virgins awaiting you. The lie of the devil to faust and the lie of muhammed to muslims: “I will give you stuff now if you give me something later” (faust). “I will give you something later if you give me something now” (allah). Whereas the entire purpose is to use you as a useful idiot to achieve immoral ends, and never pay you the reward you have been promised, because it does not exist and never did. There are no gods that are not just stories. There are no heavens that are not just false promises. There is no good in islam. The gnostics were right. Jehova was the devil and the Talmud, The Bible, and the Koran are his most successful works. There is only one prophet who does not lie. His name is Aristotle. And the one true god is truth itself.

  • THERE IS A REASON FOR INTERPRETIVE DIFFERENCES IN RELIGION —” find it very har

    THERE IS A REASON FOR INTERPRETIVE DIFFERENCES IN RELIGION

    —” find it very hard to believe that you will enable you to quickly and accurately interpret the Qu’ran when there appears to be much disagreement even within adherents to the religion”—

    That’s because no amount of study will achieve anything other than self indoctrination and hypnosis into a series of internally inconsistent falsehoods.

    Truth is non-contradictory. Thats’ how we know truth.

    falsehood is contradictory. That’s how we know falsehood.

    The fact that the koran requires ‘interpretation’ because it is internally inconsistent, is demonstration of the fact that it is falsehood.

    This is one of the great ways in which falsehoods are spread. “there is great wisdom here’.

    Then you have to just assume so many falsehoods but never reach the truth.

    The reason is that there was never any truth.

    The entire purpose was to get you to believe a series of falsehoods by the promise of future truth.

    This is the secret to all religious lies.

    The promise of eternal life is the same. If you believe all these falsehoods, then you will find immortality.

    The promise of heaven is the same: if you believe all these falsehoods then you will find heaven.

    The promise of reward: if you believe all these falsehoods then you will find virgins awaiting you.

    The lie of the devil to faust and the lie of muhammed to muslims:

    “I will give you stuff now if you give me something later” (faust).

    “I will give you something later if you give me something now” (allah).

    Whereas the entire purpose is to use you as a useful idiot to achieve immoral ends, and never pay you the reward you have been promised, because it does not exist and never did.

    There are no gods that are not just stories. There are no heavens that are not just false promises. There is no good in islam.

    The gnostics were right. Jehova was the devil and the Talmud, The Bible, and the Koran are his most successful works.

    There is only one prophet who does not lie. His name is Aristotle.

    And the one true god is truth itself.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-14 06:58:00 UTC

  • ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY -> POSTMODERN -> TESTIMONIAL PHILOSOPHY You see all these da

    ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY -> POSTMODERN -> TESTIMONIAL PHILOSOPHY

    You see all these damned lists I make? All these definitions I write? How I walk through long sequences of reasoning? How I’m pedantic about what information is present, and what operation alters what information? How I place great burden on your ability to maintain a chain of reasoning, instead of giving you shortcuts that rely upon what we call ‘meaning’ – existing analogies in your memory?

    This category of philosophy is called ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY. Now technically analytic philosophy only requires set comparisons so that statements are internally testable, and non-contradictory. In other words “Does this appear to be true, and from the information stated in the words, can I say this is false?” Analytic philosophy attempts to incorporate scientific knowledge and their goal was to raise philosophy to a science – they failed. But analytic philosophy does not attempt to require basic research into creating sets of data.

    So analytic philosophy is extremely useful in the analysis and criticism of probabilistic data created in the age of probability and statistics. But it is not in and of itself useful for the solution of problems. There is nothing new therein.

    But TESTIMONIAL PHILOSOPHY (what I write) additionally more burdensome because it requires I make sequences of testable statements constructed out of operations, taking as few liberties as possible, so that we do not get to ‘fudge’ using ‘fluffy’ or ‘obscurantist’ language.

    I have categorized myself as an analytic philosopher, since the term post-analytic philosophy refers to postmodern philosophy – lying.

    But I am settling on Testimonial Philosophy as term that separates Modern Philosophy (‘meaningful’ post-mysticism), continental (rationalisms), analytic (testable statements), postmodern (‘deception’), and Testimonial (scientifically complete using all dimensions of criticism.)

    Religious philosophy takes very little scientific knowledge – if any. we can say it might even be a detriment.

    Continental philosophy requires only that we do not rely upon mysticism or the supernatural, only that what we say is meaningful, and possibly useful. It’s a philosophy of analogy and meaning.

    Post analytic philosophy takes this idea further by replacing the supernatural that was created by the divine, and saying we can create the supernatural by choice and repetition: the social construction of truth.

    Analytic philosophy attempts to convert philosophy into a science in the hope that we can something about the world from our statements and words. But while we can test for falsehood with analytic language, we cannot divine from our words what we do not already know when we make use of them.

    Testimonial philosophy attempts to unite all disciplines into a single language constructed only out of truthful statements that have survived criticism by all dimensions.

    Truth is what survives total criticism whether we desire it or not.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-14 06:45:00 UTC

  • English lessons with a Female Ukrainian friend: Me: So it’s like this: “This one

    English lessons with a Female Ukrainian friend:

    Me: So it’s like this: “This one”. “Also that one”. “both of them”, “either one”. Or “Neither one”. And we shorten “Neither One” to just “Neither”. and all neither means is literally not-either. It’s a contraction like “don’t”.

    She: (repeating to herself)

    Me: Ok. Repeat after me. (Hoping I can pull this off with a straight face)

    She: Ok

    Me : Either one

    She: Either one

    Me: Neither one

    She: Neither one.

    Me: Kiss me

    She: Ki…. what? … Laughter. It is very dangerous to say that in front of you.

    Didn’t think I could get away with it. But damn it was fun trying.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-13 10:43:00 UTC

  • WHAT CONSTITUTES A FACT? OUTING AMATEURS AS FREE RIDERS —-“As if Jim could ans

    WHAT CONSTITUTES A FACT? OUTING AMATEURS AS FREE RIDERS

    —-“As if Jim could answer that without first RECOGNIZING the FACT of your question.”—-

    This is an interesting example, so lets use it.

    You observe the text, determine the question, can make sense of it, and therefore determine it exists. This is a very simple statement. But the reason it is a fact is that you cannot find evidence that it does not exist, or is not comprehensible as a question.

    Observation -> “recognition” -> free association -> hypothesis -> test -> theory -> test -> Law

    This sequence (popper’s problem->theory->test cycle) is what our brains do. It’s inescapable.

    So you can indeed recognize what you believe is a fact. Yes.

    We construct facts by testing the results of our observations against the possibility of falsehood. You use the term ‘recognizing’ which means ‘correspondence’. But correspondence must survive criticism. Ergo a fact is the result of survival from criticism.

    Now, this is what scientists do, and this is the meaning of fact in philosophy and science. If you want to use analogies and non operational arguments to justify your usage, then as long as I an translate your colloquialism into truthful statements I can attest that you MEAN the truth mean and intend to convey the truth even if you lack the ability (skill) to speak truthfully (scientifically).

    Now if you move from reductio examples to the court of disputes how often are people’s observations and subsequent testimony true? Well, we know from both a vast body of experiments, and the change in testimony after the invention of photography, and then video, that our ‘recognition’ is plagued with falsehood.

    So there is a big difference between recognition (an hypothesis), and a fact (a theory) because that difference

    There is a minor difference between a fact (theory of a description of an observation) and a theory (a description of a general rule that explains many observations).

    But the epistemological process is identical. We observe, identify (recognize and therefore hypothesize), test (criticize and produce theory), and repeat this process over and over again. (See “On Intelligence” by Jeff Hawkins for accessible research, and explanatory model of synthesis in layers of the cortex).

    This distinction is important because it is not the identity(recognition) that converts an observation to a fact, but the criticism (survival) of the observation that converts it to a fact. This is why we engage in a distribution of labor in research because we are so bad at testing observations and constructing theories that we need our own judgements tested – IF WE SEEK TRUTH.

    Now, the crux of YOUR argument is that one only needs sufficient confidence in correspondence with reality in order to act, and that is because one (often) bears the cost of one’s (frequent) error.

    It is when our actions affect any polity or group that the externalities of our errors ask us to judge not our own confidence in our observations and testing, but wether others will retaliate (at worst), ignore (as usual), or reward with opportunities of cooperation (at best) the externalities caused by our actions.

    So the sufficiency of our judgements in what we determine action is dependent upon the externalities produced by those judgements.

    What most libertines attempt to do is tell others that they do not wish to account for externalities produced by our actions, and that others ‘should tolerate’ the externalities produced by our actions.

    When people demonstrably do not do that. They retaliate against any and all imposition of costs on their potentials (inventory of property en toto), and if one is not contributing to them by compestatory means they will not tolerate it.

    So this is why the NAP/IVP is insufficient for rational action. It is insufficient for the prevention of retaliation, and the boycott of opportunity from others. And in fact it is not only insufficient but it is an attempt to justify parasitic actions caused by the externalization of costs, and justify the non contribution to the commons despite the fact that any general rule of behavior must be adopted as a common contract by consent and therefore exists as a commons.

    One does not choose the incentives of others. They merely exist as surely as the earth itself.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-13 07:56:00 UTC