Curt Doolittle

Theme: Measurement

  • Existential Numbers for Existential Creatures

    —“The primary concern of mathematics is numbers, and this means the positive integers. . . . In the words of Kronecker, the positive integers were created by God. Kronecker would have expressed it even better if he had said that the positive integers were created by God for the benefit of man (and other finite beings). Mathematics belongs to man, not to God. We are not interested in properties of the positive integers that have no descriptive meaning for finite man. When a man proves a positive integer to exist, he should show how to find it. If God has mathematics of his own that needs to be done, let him do it himself.”— (Bishop 1967, Chapter 1, A Constructivist Manifesto, page 2)

    —“If God has mathematics of his own that needs to be done, let him do it himself. “—

    Yes, and equally so:

    **If     god has morality of his own that he needs to be done, then let him do that himself as well.** 

    Man’s only possible morality consists in fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange, free of negative externality.


  • THE SIMPLE TRUTH It’s pretty simple. Ultimate truth is a problem for priests and

    THE SIMPLE TRUTH

    It’s pretty simple. Ultimate truth is a problem for priests and gods. But men must act using the available level of precision that their tools allow them to act at. Any statement at the available level of precision that allows actions to produce promised outcomes is a true statement. That does not mean that we cannot increase precision. So newton’s theories are true, as are Einstein’s, as will be whatever subatomic theory we construct that will replace Einstein’s. Because at each level of precision these theories produce promised outcomes.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-22 03:01:00 UTC

  • The Search For Precision and Parsimony

    [P]opper would have been better off saying that he was advising us on the search for precision and parsimony, by making truthful statements along the way, rather than coopting the word ‘truth’ from his spiritual background. We are not investigating the mind of god. Nothing is obscured from us. Nature doesn’t try to lie to us, nor is nature mistaken.

    The question is not ‘is that true’ but ‘can I testify to and warranty this?”

    Linguistic blame avoidance caused a lot of ripple effects in philosophy.

    But popper’s culture was not one of truth telling (as his own rhetorical attacks on competitors evidences.) Cosmopolitans are pragmatists not truth tellers. They do not warranty their speech as do westerners.

    Meaning in cosmopolitanism is utilitarian and escapable, not truthful and warrantied.

    Popper relies upon cosmopolitan truth (the unknowable mind of god), and cosmopolitan truthfulness (non-warrantied speech).

    This is why he could advance science but that was the limit of his solution.

  • The Search For Precision and Parsimony

    [P]opper would have been better off saying that he was advising us on the search for precision and parsimony, by making truthful statements along the way, rather than coopting the word ‘truth’ from his spiritual background. We are not investigating the mind of god. Nothing is obscured from us. Nature doesn’t try to lie to us, nor is nature mistaken.

    The question is not ‘is that true’ but ‘can I testify to and warranty this?”

    Linguistic blame avoidance caused a lot of ripple effects in philosophy.

    But popper’s culture was not one of truth telling (as his own rhetorical attacks on competitors evidences.) Cosmopolitans are pragmatists not truth tellers. They do not warranty their speech as do westerners.

    Meaning in cosmopolitanism is utilitarian and escapable, not truthful and warrantied.

    Popper relies upon cosmopolitan truth (the unknowable mind of god), and cosmopolitan truthfulness (non-warrantied speech).

    This is why he could advance science but that was the limit of his solution.

  • ALL LIFE IS POLITICS – ONCE AGAIN Action(correspondence). Precision(Parsimony).

    ALL LIFE IS POLITICS – ONCE AGAIN

    Action(correspondence). Precision(Parsimony). Meaning(Recursion)

    How do I relate these ideas to one another? Meaning allows us to restructure – to reorganize. So meaning is just theorizing with the operations (ideas) at our disposal.

    Why are the hermeneuticists so fascinated with meaning instead of truth? oh… it’s cheap.

    Wait… so, meaning to the individual isn’t important. Meaning is a political utility.

    So why is meaning….. oh… persuasion for the purpose of cooperation (and less positive ambitions) as well.

    So is it really… yes, so Popper’s advice is directional.. on the conduct of investigation, but not on truth… yes. Ok. So I am full circle again.

    SCIENCE (AND CRITICAL RATIONALISM) ARE SUBSET OF TRUTH TELLING not a superset.

    So just as mathematicians practice platonism out of convenience, scientists practice it out of convenience, philosophers practice it out of convenience.

    But then LAW IS THE HIGHEST LOGIC and testimony the only existential truth, and all else is merely a subset of the truth telling – using analogies. Analogies that lead us to confusion.

    ALL LIFE IS POLITICS

    FUK. THATS IT.

    ( Frank Lovell , Ayelam Valentine Agaliba )

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-22 00:45:00 UTC

  • Popper would have been better off saying that he was advising us on the search f

    Popper would have been better off saying that he was advising us on the search for precision and parsimony, by making truthful statements along the way, rather than coopting the word ‘truth’ from his spiritual background. We are not investigating the mind of god. Nothing is obscured from us. Nature doesn’t try to lie to us, nor is nature mistaken.

    The question is not ‘is that true’ but ‘can I testify to and warranty this?”

    Linguistic blame avoidance caused a lot of ripple effects in philosophy.

    But popper’s culture was not one of truth telling (as his own rhetorical attacks on competitors evidences.) Cosmopolitans are pragmatists not truth tellers. They do not warranty their speech as do westerners.

    Meaning in cosmopolitanism is utilitarian and escapable, not truthful and warrantied.

    Popper relies upon cosmopolitan truth (the unknowable mind of god), and cosmopolitan truthfulness (non-warrantied speech).

    This is why he could advance science but that was the limit of his solution.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-21 19:46:00 UTC

  • I CAN TRANSLATE THIS ONE TOO: —“(a) Mathematics is common sense; (b) do not as

    I CAN TRANSLATE THIS ONE TOO:

    —“(a) Mathematics is common sense; (b) do not ask whether a statement is true until you know what it means; (c) A proof is any completely convincing argument; (d) Meaningful distinctions deserve to be preserved.”—

    Morality is common sense. Do not ask whether a statement is moral unless you know what it means. a proof of construction is a completely convincing argument because that is all we seek to prove.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-19 20:18:00 UTC

  • EXISTENTIAL NUMBERS FOR EXISTENTIAL CREATURES —“The primary concern of mathema

    EXISTENTIAL NUMBERS FOR EXISTENTIAL CREATURES

    —“The primary concern of mathematics is number, and this means the positive integers. . . . In the words of Kronecker, the positive integers were created by God. Kronecker would have expressed it even better if he had said that the positive integers were created by God for the benefit of man (and other finite beings). Mathematics belongs to man, not to God. We are not interested in properties of the positive integers that have no descriptive meaning for finite man. When a man proves a positive integer to exist, he should show how to find it. If God has mathematics of his own that needs to be done, let him do it himself.”— (Bishop 1967, Chapter 1, A Constructivist Manifesto, page 2)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-19 20:16:00 UTC

  • IVP – Intersubjectively Verifiable Property

    IVP – Intersubjectively Verifiable Property

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-15 06:45:00 UTC

  • Not sure that I can say this… hmmm…. Gonna try. All general rules consist of

    Not sure that I can say this… hmmm…. Gonna try.

    All general rules consist of statements of arbitrary precision.

    All statements of arbitrary precision are constrained by limits beyond which they fail.

    Operational definitions allow us to observe changes in state of premises (concepts), operations.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-12 16:21:00 UTC