The problem with gold is (a) there is too little of it, (b) and as such it is too volitile for long term pricing. (c) and it is too open to manipulation. The problem with the fiat money system is only (a) we don’t have enough types of money, (b) we pay interest on borrowing from ourselves to create long term capital (housing, cars, appliances), which makes no damned sense at all, (c) we distribute liquidity through the financial sector and credit rather than just directly to consumers (citizens), and therefore cause the entire economy to reorganize and suffer the shocks, rather than simply having consumers correct the shock by shifting of consumption and debt. Libertarians are pretty much always wrong, because they’re always only half right, and they’re half right not because they’re moral, but because they want to enable private sector rents rather than public sector rents, instead of eliminating rents altogether. No man has any right to appreciation of a currency at the expense of others’ reduction of consumption or production. There is just no way to claim that. But it’s exactly the purpose of (((libertarian))) dogma: restoration of “the rents of the pale.”
Theme: Measurement
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OPERATIONALISM? —“Define operation(alism)”— Let Me Google That For You: Scie
OPERATIONALISM?
—“Define operation(alism)”—
Let Me Google That For You:
Scientific Method ->
…. Operational Definition ->
…. …. Operationalism (Physical Sciences) /
…. …. Operationism (Psychology) /
…. …. Intuitionism (Mathematics) /
…. …. Praxeology (Economics)
ie: “Actions”.
See Wiki for simple versions, and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy for advanced versions.
HOWEVER, since all science must be falsificationary, all arguments to justificationism (positivism) are false. As such the value of operational language (grammar and semantics) is to force empirical (existential) description as a means of avoiding hand waving, obscurantism, suggestion, and deceit.
OTHER CONCEPTS
Critical Rationalism
Critical Preference
Justificationism
Falsificationism
Propertarianism (Vitruvianism, Acquisitionism, Propertarianism, Testimonialism, Natural Law) is all Falsificationary. In other words, like evolution, that which survives falsification is potentially true. And justification either is neutral or reduces the empirical (measurable) content of an argument.
VIA NEGATIVA (FALSIFICATION) VS VIA POSITIVA (JUSTIFICATION)
So imagine a pair of sculptors, one working in stone, subtracting (falsificationism), and the other working in clay, adding, (justificationism).
The two must match, or one, the other, or both is false.
In other words, just as the only test of production is a voluntary exchange, the only test of truth is survival in the market for competition.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-18 16:25:00 UTC
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THE DEFLATIONARY GRAMMARS —“Perception -> deconflation -> finding a unit of me
THE DEFLATIONARY GRAMMARS
—“Perception -> deconflation -> finding a unit of measure -> finding commensurability. Breakthroughs occur when commensurability between disparate domains are discovered, which then gives rise to better measures. Discovering the common relation reveals commensurable measure. Operational epistemology focusses on relations as primary and identity/domains as secondary (or contingent).”—Bill Joslin
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-17 09:26:00 UTC
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Imprecision, suggestion, and demand for substitution create the impression of co
Imprecision, suggestion, and demand for substitution create the impression of consensus where there is none. If you can’t state something operationally so that it is testable, then you either don’t know what you’re talking about or are engaged in abrahamic sophisms.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-17 08:34:00 UTC
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THE COMPETITION BETWEEN POSITIVA AND NEGATIVA Logics are deflationary grammars s
THE COMPETITION BETWEEN POSITIVA AND NEGATIVA
Logics are deflationary grammars so that we can test ourselves. They are very limited languages with very strict grammars and semantics. They serve as means of falsification.
Stories allow us to search for opportunities.
Via-positiva stories (meaning) vs via-negativa logics (falsification) and the truth is what survives the competition.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-17 08:00:00 UTC
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Operational Language Expressing Science:
OPERATIONAL LANGUAGE EXPRESSING SCIENCE: THE LEAST FALSE METHOD OF REACHING ROME —“Science is both the method of inquiry and the body of knowledge gained by that method’s application. A priori knowledge applies only to the abstract, once it interacts with the real world the test of any tool or paradigm is how effective it is in predicting and changing it. As there’s only one real world, any framework or method of inquiry that is effective in interfacing with it will approach the same results. All roads lead to Rome, as it were.”—Jason Johnson >Curt Doolittle ^ This is the most important argument really. Although I would refine it to say ‘there is only one most parsimonious (shortest) road to Rome.’
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Operational Language Expressing Science:
OPERATIONAL LANGUAGE EXPRESSING SCIENCE: THE LEAST FALSE METHOD OF REACHING ROME —“Science is both the method of inquiry and the body of knowledge gained by that method’s application. A priori knowledge applies only to the abstract, once it interacts with the real world the test of any tool or paradigm is how effective it is in predicting and changing it. As there’s only one real world, any framework or method of inquiry that is effective in interfacing with it will approach the same results. All roads lead to Rome, as it were.”—Jason Johnson >Curt Doolittle ^ This is the most important argument really. Although I would refine it to say ‘there is only one most parsimonious (shortest) road to Rome.’
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The Failure of Paradigms (ways of Thinking)
There is a reason the world is continuously coalescing to the vocabulary and grammars of science: and that is because of the commensurability and therefore falsificationary value of the single most parsimonious vocabulary and grammar consisting entirely of continuous relations from the very small below human scale, through to human scale, to the very large beyond human scale – the semantics of which consist of analogies to observable experience: human scale. Any idiot can come up with a paradigm that provides some sort of explanatory power, in the same way that a fairy tale, legend, or mythos provides explanatory power: by analogy. And idiots come up with new paradigms all the time, in an effort to elucidate some set of relations or other. And the they congratulate themselves on their insight and next seek to preserve that insight by justification: a forever-failing attempt to find a way for the rest of human knowledge to fit that paradigm. They over-invest. They fail. It is quite different to start with an attempt to discover the grammar and semantics of science itself, and with that ambition to correct the minor incompatibilities between the arts and sciences, thereby increasing commensurability and falsifiability across all arts and sciences – producing a universal grammar and semantics and as such rendering all human knowledge more parsimonious and synthetic.
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The Failure of Paradigms (ways of Thinking)
There is a reason the world is continuously coalescing to the vocabulary and grammars of science: and that is because of the commensurability and therefore falsificationary value of the single most parsimonious vocabulary and grammar consisting entirely of continuous relations from the very small below human scale, through to human scale, to the very large beyond human scale – the semantics of which consist of analogies to observable experience: human scale. Any idiot can come up with a paradigm that provides some sort of explanatory power, in the same way that a fairy tale, legend, or mythos provides explanatory power: by analogy. And idiots come up with new paradigms all the time, in an effort to elucidate some set of relations or other. And the they congratulate themselves on their insight and next seek to preserve that insight by justification: a forever-failing attempt to find a way for the rest of human knowledge to fit that paradigm. They over-invest. They fail. It is quite different to start with an attempt to discover the grammar and semantics of science itself, and with that ambition to correct the minor incompatibilities between the arts and sciences, thereby increasing commensurability and falsifiability across all arts and sciences – producing a universal grammar and semantics and as such rendering all human knowledge more parsimonious and synthetic.
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THE FAILURE OF PARADIGMS (WAYS OF THINKING) There is a reason the world is conti
THE FAILURE OF PARADIGMS (WAYS OF THINKING)
There is a reason the world is continuously coalescing to the vocabulary and grammars of science: and that is because of the commensurability and therefore falsificationary value of the single most parsimonious vocabulary and grammar consisting entirely of continuous relations from the very small below human scale, through to human scale, to the very large beyond human scale – the semantics of which consist of analogies to observable experience: human scale.
Any idiot can come up with a paradigm that provides some sort of explanatory power, in the same way that a fairy tale, legend, or mythos provides explanatory power: by analogy. And idiots come up with new paradigms all the time, in an effort to elucidate some set of relations or other. And the they congratulate themselves on their insight and next seek to preserve that insight by justification: a forever-failing attempt to find a way for the rest of human knowledge to fit that paradigm. They over-invest. They fail.
It is quite different to start with an attempt to discover the grammar and semantics of science itself, and with that ambition to correct the minor incompatibilities between the arts and sciences, thereby increasing commensurability and falsifiability across all arts and sciences – producing a universal grammar and semantics and as such rendering all human knowledge more parsimonious and synthetic.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-16 11:18:00 UTC