Theme: Operationalism

  • but that is just an operational means of saying the same thing

    but that is just an operational means of saying the same thing.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-18 10:17:37 UTC

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    @johann_theron better to say that it states too few limits. And that was only first step to strict construction.

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    @johann_theron better to say that it states too few limits. And that was only first step to strict construction.

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  • Positivist fallacy. Science requires full accounting

    Positivist fallacy. Science requires full accounting.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-12 22:42:43 UTC

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  • La diferencia entre lo cognitivamente significativo y lo existencialmente verdadero

    Texto original de Curt Doolittle
    Traducido al castellano por Alberto R. Zambrano U.
    Disponible en: 
    http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2016/02/05/30211/

    -o visto de otra forma: “una cosa es el pensamiento, otra es la obra, y otra es la idea de la obra. La rueda de la causalidad no gira entre ellas”

    [L]aurence, (Danny),

    Exactamente, Yo tiendo a describir este problema como el punto de vista en la gramática del testimonio. ( Mi énfasis en que tiene que permanecer constante- a menos que no logremos escapar de la prueba del conocimiento de la causalidad por parte del interlocutor).

    Experiencia: “Una cosa es el pensamiento”
    Acción: “Otra cosa es la obra”
    Observación: “otra cos es la idea de la obra”

    Porque somos humanos, porque podemos empatizar con otros humanos (de lo contrario la cooperación sería imposible), nosotros podemos como observadores sugerir tanto la acción como la experiencia.

    Pero porque somos humanos y todavía no sabemos los primeros principios del universo, sólo podemos manejar la observación. Y si podemos construir un experimento entonces podemos actuar y grabar nuestras acciones. Pero el universo meramente reacciona ante nosotros. Nosotros somos meros observadores hasta que podamos construir un modelo suficientemente completo del universo para que podamos empalizar como lo hacemos con otros hombres . También es posible (aunque difícil de imaginar) que no podemos hacerlo.

    Esta diferencia entre la empatía probable y la empatía no probable, es la razón por la cual las ciencias sociales necesitan explicación praxeológica y descripción operativa de las ciencias físicas para poder probar si imaginamos una secuencia de relaciones imaginarias o si podemos describir una secuencia de relaciones causales existentes.

    Si estamos por siempre frustrados por el hecho de que el universo físico luce determinista incluso si no podemos empatizar con él, por la sencilla razón de que mientras los humanos son marginalmente indiferentes a escala, y pueden actuar consistentemente en sus intereses, que los humanos puedan reaccionar a combinaciones de memoria e información más que a estar aislados de observar a un mundo subatómico al cual actualmente no podemos contemplar.

    Por ende el problema de las “teorías significativas” que nos asisten en la asociación creativa libre, y en las “recetas verdaderas” para la acción que nos ayudan en la transformación predecible.

    Yo puedo testificar que existen una secuencia de operaciones. Y no puedo hacer lo mismo con su significado. Y sólo puedo ser honesto al respecto.

    Y por ello aquí está la diferencia entre:

    1.lo judicial y el juez: lo crítico y ,

    2.el productor y producción: lo productivo y,

    3.lo artístico y lo científico: lo creativo

    4.el nutriente y lo maternal: lo reproductivo.

    Lo cual podemos llevar a algo más profundo:

    1.lo conservador y lo judicial (mayoría sustancial)

    2.el conservador libertario productor (minoría)

    3.el investigador progresista libertario (minoría más pequeña)

    4.el consumidor progresista (la mayoría dominante)

    Todos buscamos justificar nuestros sesgos genéticos, estrategias reproductivas e intereses superiores.

    Todos toleramos, aceptamos o abogamos que las exteriorizadas producidas por nuestros sesgos deben ser consideradas pérdidas aceptables por otros.

    Cuando limitados que la tolerancia por la pérdida sólo puede ser determinada por el intercambio: ningún otro método puede capturar “valor” y el precio del conocimiento más que por medio del intercambio que puede captar valor y precio.

    Por ello

    1. Popper no rinde cuenta por costos ni por exterioridad, lo cual es racional ya que el no fue sofisticado en esta materia.

    2. Popper no pudo definir la tolerancia de la exterioridad del mercado. Esto es perdonable ya que fue una víctima de su herencia y su era.

    3. Popper está preocupado por el hecho de que  la creatividad no puede ser impuesta, que la creatividad no puede ser usada para ser impuesta a otros, ya que su verdad es incierta. Y está claro que él (al igual que Von Mises) estaba feliz con simplemente “inventar cosas” para pelearle ideas a los socialistas. El está mostrando su sesgo cognitiva al defender su sesgo cognitiva, reproductivo y genético.

    4. Los argumentos de Karl Popper no son verdaderos en el sentido de que satisfacen siete u ocho pruebas de garantía de debida diligencia contra la falsedad. Sus argumentos son, en vez de ello, una advertencia moral. No es lógica, no es empírica, sino una advertencia moral.

    5. Bajo la demanda de lo que se decide, nosotros tendemos a refinar nuestras teorías más abstractas, no falsearlas.

    6. Cuando refinamos teorías, pareciera que falseáramos el verbo “significar”, que se usa en libre asociación (creatividad), no la verdad operativa instrumental, en la aplicación del método.

    7. lo creativo, significativo es profundamente importante, la operatividad existencial de ello es menos importante, y resiste las exigencias externas de su libre asociación y las imposiciones inmorales de su búsqueda de gratificación

    8. ¿Por que el productor de ideas nuevas no ha de rendir cuentas de sus productos de la misma manera que los proveedores de bienes y servicios? ¿Por que defendemos los bienes físicos, las normativas comunes, las normativas institucionales comunes, las tradiciones comunes, e incluso la mitología común, pero no hacemos eso con la información común?

    9. Los términos no operativos, no existenciales como “libertades positivas y libertades negativas” son quizá significativos, pero tienen poco o ningún contenido verdadero. Uno puede experimentar la condición de libertad. El que lo puede hacer lo hace porque era (libertad por permisología no es libertad) o puede hacerlo porque desea experimentar una condición experimental de libertad. ¿Que libertad existe entonces? ¿Cuál libertad puede existir?

    La libertad que puede existir es la acción moral por cualquier organización monopólica con poder para actuar inmoralmente, aunque sus miembros no lo hagan. ¿Que moralidad puede existir entonces cuando otros imponen ningún tipo de costo sobre ti, toda vez que al mismo tiempo tu no impones costos sobre ellos. Sobre todo el costo del parasitismo.

    Yo no estoy interesado en mejorar la creatividad, Yo estoy convencido que por ensayo y error, usando el método menos cotoso de la investigación se pueden alcanzar mejorías.

    A nosotros nos va bien con el avance las ciencias físicas. Pero hemos sido trágicamente incompetentes al avanzar en mejorar las ciencias sociales ¿por que?

    ¿Por que como Hayek, Poincare, Brouwe, Bidgman y docenas de otros autores-incluso Von Mises en su propia y cruda forma- los siglos XIX y XX resultaron ser permisivos en la expansión de las seudociencias – si no mentiras?

    ¿Cual fue el costo de esas “mentiras?

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    -Boaz (antropología), Marx (economía y sociología), Freud (psicología) y Cantor (platonismo matemático), Mises (economía y filosofía), el siglo XX vio la ola subsiguiente de mentirosos filosóficos como Michel Foucault, el antropólogo Claude Lévi-Strauss, el psicoanalista Jacques Lacan, el psicoanalista del desarrollo infantil Jean Piaget, los lingüistas Noam Chomsky Roman Jakobson, el crítico literario Roland Barthes

    …y los teóricos marxistas Louis Althusser y Nicos Poulantzas, Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Herber Marcuse, Friedrich Pollock, Erich Fromm, Otto Kirchheimer, Leo Löwental, Franz Leopold Neuman, Henryk Grossman, Siegfried Krakauer, Alfred Sohn-Rethek, Walter Benjamin, Jurgen Habermas, Claus Offen, Axel Honett, Oskar Nett, Alfred Schmidt, Albrecht Wellmer

    …Y los posmodernistas Martin Heiddeger, Jean-François Lyotard, Richard Rory, Jean Baudrillard, Frederic Jameson, Douglas Kellner…

    Aunque debemos tomar nota de que los posmodernistas franceses, alemanas,es americanos y británicos hacen uso del método germánico de la pseudo-moral, y del pseudo-racionalismo: no la ley seudo científica.

    …Y Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard también, el hecho de que la obra de Hoppe sobre los incentivos es olida no tiene ningún peso sobre sus argumentos carentes de sentido que buscan llevar adelante la seudociencia Misesiana y Rothbardiana. (Sobre la cual he escrito de forma extensa).

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    ¿Cómo mejoramos la ciencia la prevenir otra época oscurantismo creada por seudocientíficos, seudoracionalistas, versalitas, místicos y platónicos matemáticos?

    Nosotros requerimos garantizar la debida diligencia en la producción de sus informaciones de la misma manera que garantizamos con debida diligencia la producción de de bienes y servicios contra la falseada y los hacemos responsables por ello.

    Si uno cumple todas las garantías de la debida diligencia, entonces es difícil ser responsable. Si uno cumple con las garantías de la diligencia entonces es difícil publicar falsedades.

    Este método ha sido probado que funciona de forma efectiva en las ciencias duras, meramente porque requiere de un lenguaje operativo.

    No hay razón por la cual no podamos extender esto a las ciencias sociales, al requerir lenguaje operativo como una prueba de posibilidad existencial en cada paso de lo que es subjetivamente probable.

    Completando la obra de Popper
    Así yo veo a Popper como un ser cognitiva y culturalmente sesgado, y habiendo correctamente deducido que debemos separar la piedra del mármol para exponer adecuadamente de esta forma la gran estatua de mármol que es la verdad.

    Y que en el avance cel conocimiento – científico, lo cual significa conocimiento verdadero- en todos los campos requiere no que mejoremos el método de la libre asociación (que no es lógico) sino que mejoremos nuestras pruebas para limitar nuestros errores.

    Respondiéndole a Danny:

    Mi preocupación con el escrito fue que este uso no articulado de una verdad no operativa ni racional, y quizá “significativa”, pero no “verdadera” se intenta defender lo anterior en vez de un análisis cr´tico del método de crear una condición de libertad y que es costoso asumir esto, y que la garantía que debemos poner para nuestras afirmaciones también es costosa. No limitar nuestra creatividad sino mejorarla por un lado y limitar nuestra violación de libertad por medio de la imposición del daño por la exterioridad.

    Simplemente, si persiste el uso libertario mainstream de los verbalizamos, persiste por ende el argumento seudocientífico del pensamiento libertario.

    Aunque yo no dudo que los autores del argumento racionalista se den cuenta de que están haciendo, porque no saben cómo argumentar honestamente, sólo significativamente.

    Epistemológicamente: lo que funciona es lo que es cierto

    “Sólo sabemos lo que funciona”. Porque las acciones son probables en la realidad. Nuestros significados, “etiquetas, justificaciones”, son sólo eso y nada más. Si no podemos describir algo existencialmente entonces no sabemos de hecho lo que hacemos al decirlo.

    El significado es análogo a una parábola. La receta de una fórmula que “sirve” es verdadera.

    Objetivo

    Yo estoy seguro de que si requerimos la garantía de la debida diligencia en los productos intelectuales antes de cualquier tipo de publicación, esas publicaciones se irían a pique y el contenido verdadero publicado se habría de expandir.

    Aun más: estoy seguro de que esto produciría un gran cambio en el conocimiento humano igual que la ilustración científica lo hizo en las ciencias físicas.

    Advertencia

    Te tengo gran respeto (danny) ya que eres prácticamente la única persona que produce algo en el movimiento libertario que sea más útil que para ponérselo a los pájaros en una jaula para que lo caguen.

    Habiendo dicho esto, no fui capaz de determinar cual argumento fue el que tu, Danny estabas haciendo ya que la terminología es metafórica, y no existencial, científica, real o “posible”, que yo sepa. La libertad positiva y negativa no pueden existir. La libertad puede ser llevada a existir. Si tenemos más o menos de ella.

    Eso es todo.

    Curt Doolittle

  • Scientific Praxeology (Economic Intuitionism)MY FB PAGE ON SCIENTIFIC PRAXEOLOGY

    Scientific Praxeology (Economic Intuitionism)MY FB PAGE ON SCIENTIFIC PRAXEOLOGY

    (the inverse of the pseudoscience of praxeology)


    Source date (UTC): 2016-02-09 17:08:00 UTC

  • MISES (reposted in response to user request) PRAXEOLOGY AS THE FAILURE TO DEVELO

    http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2014/06/21/mises-praxeology-as-the-failure-to-develop-economic-operationalism-yes/REGARDING MISES

    (reposted in response to user request)

    PRAXEOLOGY AS THE FAILURE TO DEVELOP ECONOMIC OPERATIONALISM

    http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2014/06/21/mises-praxeology-as-the-failure-to-develop-economic-operationalism-yes/

    REFORMING AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS IS NECESSARY

    http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/01/05/yes-reforming-austrian-economics-is-necessary/

    MISES POSITION IN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

    http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2014/10/17/mises-position-in-intellectual-history/

    RENDERING ROTHBARDIAN FALLACIES EMBARRASSING AND ARGUMENTATIVELY IMPOSSIBLE

    http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2014/06/20/rendering-rothbardian-fallacies-intellectually-embarrassing-and-argumentatively-impossible/


    Source date (UTC): 2016-02-09 17:07:00 UTC

  • WHY ARE YOU ARGUING USING AXIOMATIC RATIONALISM INSTEAD OF SCIENTIFIC THEORY AND

    WHY ARE YOU ARGUING USING AXIOMATIC RATIONALISM INSTEAD OF SCIENTIFIC THEORY AND LAW? (clue: it’s not a good reason)

    —as I can tell [doolittle’s] main argument is that it is a logical contradiction to say we own ourselves because an entity cannot be self owning.

    This is an error because he never establishes the qualities that make an entity capable of owning – I.E. that it is a moral being. By ignoring the prerequisites for ownership his whole argument implodes in on itself, for example he claims that libertarians don’t believe in positive obligations to children (they do) and that children achieve self ownership at some point in growing up (they always own themselves). In creating this straw man he is guilty of extreme fallacy, but even his initial point is false. The only entity that can own itself is a moral being, because only moral beings are capable of ownership. This is not a logical contradiction because moral beings are categorically different from the rest of the universe. This is justified by the same arguments by which one is involved in a logical contradiction by arguing against them.—-

    uh huh.

    That’s not the argument.The argument is much more profound: “Why are you not arguing scientifically, and instead are arguing rationally?” Do you do so to justify a falsehood? Or because you simply do not possess the knowledge to argue scientifically(critically), and only are aware of the technology of rationalism (justification)?

    Just as supernatural ethics were used for centuries reasonably, rationally, and legally, using justificationary logic, Deontological (declarative) ethics have now been used for centuries reasonably, rationally, and legally. But Neither supernatural ethics, or deontological ethics are structured nor argued scientifically.

    Just as rule ethics (deontological ethics) can be used to provide legal license for immoral actions due to asymmetry of knowledge, outcome ethics (teleological ethics) can be used to prevent immoral actions that rule ethics would permit. In other words, both outcome ethics and scientific criticism provide greater explanatory power, and greater suppression of the parasitism that produces conflict and inhibits cooperation.

    Deontological (declared) ethics are easily used for deceit. And that rothbardian ethics consist of deontological rules specifically to avoid the evolutionary enforcement of judicial law. Meanwhile physical law, natural law, judicial law, evolve constantly, in order to prevent escape of evolutionary expansion of judicial law.

    That’s “The Argument”: That rothbardian ethics, like traditional law he was imitating, were designed to justify a scientifically, objectively, immoral reproductive strategy. And worse, rothbardian ethics, like authoritarian religious ethics that preceded it, make use of incomplete statements (principles) in order to invoke suggestion, in the same way that Lao Tzu’s ‘riddles’ invoke suggestion.

    In other words, you can get away with saying many things, if you rely upon suggestion to complete incomplete statements. However this allows the altruist to take risk and the predator to prey on one’s altruism.

    Suggestion using riddles and incomplete sentences is an excellent vehicle for non-rational, transmission of ideas. Religion, libertarianism, Confucianism, to some degree buddhism, all rely upon it.

    Science does not. The common law does not. Rome was superior to Athens in that roman law was scientific, and greek law was rational. we inherited roman law and its compatibility with anglo saxon law. we restored greek science. But we maintained greek rationalism, and the church’s adoption of it. As a means of excuse making – when we do not know the truth, or it is uncomfortable, or undesirable.

    (more…)

    (…more)

    REVERSAL

    That said, let’s take a look at how ownership is constructed.

    Humans are expensive and need to acquire. They defend what they acquire. And they seek to acquire a wide range of acquisitions.

    Demonstrated Property (property candidates) are determined by what humans retaliate for the imposition of costs upon. Evidence suggests that the scope of demonstrated property includes anything that one has born any form of cost to transform (or not) from one state to another.

    While human evolved the facility to empathize with intent, and therefore cooperate. Cooperation is usually more rewarding than conflict – but not always. Humans act in our rational interests given the information at our disposal and the technology of reasoning at our disposal and that we have mastered.

    Ownership (identity) is created as the property of a contract -usually normative – insured by third parties – usually formally (Institutionally).

    Property rights(decidability), likewise, are created by contract – usually normative – insured by third parties – usually formally.

    The distribution of property and property rights varies widely, is created by contract, usually normative, and insured by third parties, usually formally.

    Property rights are determined by what the insurer is willing to enforce, usually determined normatively. Always evolutionarily.

    The individualization of property evolved in parallel to the inheritance practices of the family, and the atomization of the division of labor.

    Self ownership is an unscientific (untrue) expression that like the incomplete sentence “NAP” instead of “NAP/IVP” is an unscientific (untrue) expression. The rothbardian libertarian corpus consists of a set of assertions (not observations) evolved if not designed, to JUSTIFY a particular group evolutionary strategy – not to scientifically (Truthfully) describe necessary conditions for producing a condition of liberty. (Hayek did that by the way. It’s called the prevention of conflict and the resolution of disputes by contract, under rule of law (universal applicability), under universal standing (universal right of suit), evolving by

    In other words, the common law of contract is scientific: ever evolving. It consists of observations(free associations), hypotheses(untested guesses), theories(tested guesses) and Laws(durable models). This body of knowledge arises from the resolution of disputes. Disputes arise from human nature. Humans enter conflict because at least one party attempts to impose a loss against another party.

    The scope of what we will agree to insure varies from culture to culture. Conversely, the scope of what we will not agree to insure varies from culture to culture. And moreover, what groups agree to internally insure, versus what they agree to externally insure varies from culture to culture, tribe to tribe, family to family – depending largely upon their reproductive strategy.

    There is NOTHING Individual in the construction of liberty. Yet everything in the construction of liberty is dependent upon the defense of the individual’s investments. Why? Because in the west we needed warriors in order to accumulate commons, yet lacked the wealth to supply them. Because we lacked a central government to collect sufficient money. Because our means of production was individual farms, not alluvial plains.

    Liberty is not constructed by argument or avoidance of constructing a commons. It is constructed by our reciprocal insurance of one another – a commons.

    Impose no cost upon that which another has born a cost to accumulate, whether his life,his family, his mates, his offspring, his kin, his several property, his myths, rituals, traditions, norms, institutions, and as an insurer, correct all imposition of costs by all others against all of the same. For he will retaliate against you if you do.

    This is science,

    this is common law,

    this is rule of law,

    this is universal standing,

    this is natural Law.

    The purpose of rothbardian ethics is to escape investment in the commons – which is a logical and existential contradiction since property rights and a condition of liberty must and can only exist when produced as a commons – and furthermore to explicitly license deceit which would

    NAP / Self ownership / “Economics is deducible” / The Action Axiom and other ‘principles’ are restatements of medieval religious law, themselves statements of a group evolutionary strategy, and are stated as half truths – excuses – for the purpose of facilitating suggestion, suggestions that appeal to those who are suggestible, who are suggestible altruistically, are suggestible to commons-avoidance, and these statements are not scientific, nor ‘true’, nor natural laws, nor can they produce a condition of liberty.

    There are many kinds of useful idiots. Rothbardians are the good kind. But they are still suggestible, and easily fooled by half truths, riddles, puzzles, and suggestions that do not require one to gather vast amounts of scientific knowledge, but instead, can rely upon introspection – all of which does nothing but reinforce the suggestion.

    That’s the argument.

    Although I tried to go too deep into the differences in information content between methods of argument structure last night, I thought it might help. It did not.

    This post requires less knowledge of the reader.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev Ukraine


    Source date (UTC): 2016-02-09 03:52:00 UTC

  • The Absence of Consideration for Costs in Popper’s Critical Rationalism.

    [T]HE ABSENCE OF COST IN POPPER’S CRITICAL RATIONALISM AND TESTIMONIALISM’S COMPLETENESS.

    —Since we can never know for sure what is true and what is false, —

    1) **We can however perform due diligence on our hypotheses, and pay the cost of that due diligence, rather than fail to do so, and thereby export the cost of our falsification onto the commons.** Which is why I raise the question, since it is what I believe you’re advocating. 2) Newton’s theory is not so much false as it less precise than Einstein’s. If that were true then Mythic, Virtue, and Rule ethics would all be ‘false’ rather than the degree of precision possible given the human subject using them. Recipes work or do not work. The verbal description we give to the category of those recipes (the theory), constructed as a verbal statement of arbitrary precision, is less precise (more general) than the recipe (sequence of operations). And imprecision is useful to us so that we can freely associate opportunities for the use of the theory, and then test them. But it appears that we are very good at criticizing theories. The problem is not criticizing theories, but the instrumentation necessary, and cost of criticizing those theories. Popper did no research, he made only an a priori assumption. It certainly APPEARS that in choosing between alternatives the least-cost method leads to discovery if for no other reason than the universe operates by least cost itself. So the statement that we know nothing for certain is not an empirical, and not even a logical, but a moral one: that we cannot use theories of arbitrary precision to impose costs upon one another, under the appeal to the authority of truth or science. 3) But Popperians like many libertarians, seem to habitually seek to justify exporting of costs in order to satisfy their needs for novelty and order (Big5: Openness to experience, Moral Foundations: economic and personal liberty. Propertarianism: acquisition of novel experiences. ) And popper is visibly circumventing costs in hist arguments, as if we are not speaking of a physical and material world, but a verbal, legal, or platonic one. Just as progressives seek to export their experiments ‘for the common good’ onto others. Just as conservatives wish to export their concern for risk-abatement onto others. Libertarians seek to export their admittedly lower cost of self stimulation onto others without taking care that they have performed due diligence against falsehood – if not also immorality (harm). When (a) the empirical evidence suggests that we do kill off false theories very quickly, (b) that we are largely engaged in the process of refining theories, not falsifying them, (d) that the number of theories that are ‘challenging’ is fairly small, but the number of falsehoods extant are very large (c) that least-cost is indeed a method of aggregate decidability (critical preference) (d) that it is far more expensive to construct a falsification of a welcome error or deception than it is to produce a welcome error or deception. 4) Popper/Darwin’s innovation was the systemic use of ‘survival’ over historical ‘justification for being’, meaning that he inverted the search for truth from accumulating justifications for hypotheses: as Rodin builds his sculpture from clay; into accumulating criticisms to see if the theory survives: as Michelangelo removes the rock to expose the potential sculpture underneath. So why would we seek to advance knowledge rather than eliminate lies and falsehoods? Why would we not worry more about preventing false and deceitful intellectual products more so than truthful ones? Would that not direct capital (costs) to truthful rather than untruthful results? So you see – this problem of costs, so fundamental to the natural laws of human behavior, and the physical laws of the extant universe is absent from popperian thought. And I am always struck with “why?” Popper was a cosmopolitan just as I am an anglo empiricist, and Kant is a german rationalist. Popper’s tradition was religion, religious law, avoidance of paying into the commons, willing, if not advocacy of, privatization of the commons, and an avoidance of externalized costs so universal to western thought that we are unaware of alternative methods of thinking. None of us escape our framings. But popper’s vision was incomplete. He ‘hooked onto’ falsification (survival) as a life raft, but he didn’t grasp that each dimension of existence requires us to perform due diligence (which again, is a cost-based framing, whereas falsification is a legal or religious based framing). Warranties of Due Diligence: – categorical consistency (non-conflation) – Internal consistency (logical) – external correspondence (empirical consistency) – existential consistency (operational definitions) – full accounting ( against selection bias ) – parsimony and limits ( precision ) – morality – ( natural law of cooperation) consisting of productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer, limited to externalities of the same criteria.) Because having performed these due diligences, it is extremely difficult to engage in error, bias, wishful thinking, loading-framing-overloading-suggestion, and deceit. In fact, it would be almost impossible. Simply stating most arguments analytically in operational language causes self refutation. Hence the only reasons to escape these due diligences are; 1 – because one is merely ignorant that such a warranty of due diligence can be performed, or how to perform it. 2 – to escape paying costs of due diligence, like the distributor of faulty products. 3 – to deceive or profit from, or achieve conquest by, the distribution of wishful thinking and deceit. 4 – because we do not limit the market for distribution of intellectual works to those which are warrantied of due diligence, by treating the informational commons like we do the air, land, and sea: as commons that must be protected from harm; and under universal standing allowing us to pursue restitution for such harm against those who fail to perform due diligence on their intellectual products. This may be a bit to digest, but you can see between the scope of your argument and the scope of mine the demonstration of the technique. Cheers Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • The Absence of Consideration for Costs in Popper’s Critical Rationalism.

    [T]HE ABSENCE OF COST IN POPPER’S CRITICAL RATIONALISM AND TESTIMONIALISM’S COMPLETENESS.

    —Since we can never know for sure what is true and what is false, —

    1) **We can however perform due diligence on our hypotheses, and pay the cost of that due diligence, rather than fail to do so, and thereby export the cost of our falsification onto the commons.** Which is why I raise the question, since it is what I believe you’re advocating. 2) Newton’s theory is not so much false as it less precise than Einstein’s. If that were true then Mythic, Virtue, and Rule ethics would all be ‘false’ rather than the degree of precision possible given the human subject using them. Recipes work or do not work. The verbal description we give to the category of those recipes (the theory), constructed as a verbal statement of arbitrary precision, is less precise (more general) than the recipe (sequence of operations). And imprecision is useful to us so that we can freely associate opportunities for the use of the theory, and then test them. But it appears that we are very good at criticizing theories. The problem is not criticizing theories, but the instrumentation necessary, and cost of criticizing those theories. Popper did no research, he made only an a priori assumption. It certainly APPEARS that in choosing between alternatives the least-cost method leads to discovery if for no other reason than the universe operates by least cost itself. So the statement that we know nothing for certain is not an empirical, and not even a logical, but a moral one: that we cannot use theories of arbitrary precision to impose costs upon one another, under the appeal to the authority of truth or science. 3) But Popperians like many libertarians, seem to habitually seek to justify exporting of costs in order to satisfy their needs for novelty and order (Big5: Openness to experience, Moral Foundations: economic and personal liberty. Propertarianism: acquisition of novel experiences. ) And popper is visibly circumventing costs in hist arguments, as if we are not speaking of a physical and material world, but a verbal, legal, or platonic one. Just as progressives seek to export their experiments ‘for the common good’ onto others. Just as conservatives wish to export their concern for risk-abatement onto others. Libertarians seek to export their admittedly lower cost of self stimulation onto others without taking care that they have performed due diligence against falsehood – if not also immorality (harm). When (a) the empirical evidence suggests that we do kill off false theories very quickly, (b) that we are largely engaged in the process of refining theories, not falsifying them, (d) that the number of theories that are ‘challenging’ is fairly small, but the number of falsehoods extant are very large (c) that least-cost is indeed a method of aggregate decidability (critical preference) (d) that it is far more expensive to construct a falsification of a welcome error or deception than it is to produce a welcome error or deception. 4) Popper/Darwin’s innovation was the systemic use of ‘survival’ over historical ‘justification for being’, meaning that he inverted the search for truth from accumulating justifications for hypotheses: as Rodin builds his sculpture from clay; into accumulating criticisms to see if the theory survives: as Michelangelo removes the rock to expose the potential sculpture underneath. So why would we seek to advance knowledge rather than eliminate lies and falsehoods? Why would we not worry more about preventing false and deceitful intellectual products more so than truthful ones? Would that not direct capital (costs) to truthful rather than untruthful results? So you see – this problem of costs, so fundamental to the natural laws of human behavior, and the physical laws of the extant universe is absent from popperian thought. And I am always struck with “why?” Popper was a cosmopolitan just as I am an anglo empiricist, and Kant is a german rationalist. Popper’s tradition was religion, religious law, avoidance of paying into the commons, willing, if not advocacy of, privatization of the commons, and an avoidance of externalized costs so universal to western thought that we are unaware of alternative methods of thinking. None of us escape our framings. But popper’s vision was incomplete. He ‘hooked onto’ falsification (survival) as a life raft, but he didn’t grasp that each dimension of existence requires us to perform due diligence (which again, is a cost-based framing, whereas falsification is a legal or religious based framing). Warranties of Due Diligence: – categorical consistency (non-conflation) – Internal consistency (logical) – external correspondence (empirical consistency) – existential consistency (operational definitions) – full accounting ( against selection bias ) – parsimony and limits ( precision ) – morality – ( natural law of cooperation) consisting of productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer, limited to externalities of the same criteria.) Because having performed these due diligences, it is extremely difficult to engage in error, bias, wishful thinking, loading-framing-overloading-suggestion, and deceit. In fact, it would be almost impossible. Simply stating most arguments analytically in operational language causes self refutation. Hence the only reasons to escape these due diligences are; 1 – because one is merely ignorant that such a warranty of due diligence can be performed, or how to perform it. 2 – to escape paying costs of due diligence, like the distributor of faulty products. 3 – to deceive or profit from, or achieve conquest by, the distribution of wishful thinking and deceit. 4 – because we do not limit the market for distribution of intellectual works to those which are warrantied of due diligence, by treating the informational commons like we do the air, land, and sea: as commons that must be protected from harm; and under universal standing allowing us to pursue restitution for such harm against those who fail to perform due diligence on their intellectual products. This may be a bit to digest, but you can see between the scope of your argument and the scope of mine the demonstration of the technique. Cheers Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • THE ABSENCE OF COST IN POPPER’S CRITICAL RATIONALISM AND TESTIMONIALISM’S COMPLE

    THE ABSENCE OF COST IN POPPER’S CRITICAL RATIONALISM AND TESTIMONIALISM’S COMPLETENESS.

    —Since we can never know for sure what is true and what is false, —

    1) **We can however perform due diligence on our hypotheses, and pay the cost of that due diligence, rather than fail to do so, and thereby export the cost of our falsification onto the commons.**

    Which is why I raise the question, since it is what I believe you’re advocating.

    2) Newton’s theory is not so much false as it less precise than Einstein’s. If that were true then Mythic, Virtue, and Rule ethics would all be ‘false’ rather than the degree of precision possible given the human subject using them.

    Recipes work or do not work. The verbal description we give to the category of those recipes (the theory), constructed as a verbal statement of arbitrary precision, is less precise (more general) than the recipe (sequence of operations).

    And imprecision is useful to us so that we can freely associate opportunities for the use of the theory, and then test them.

    But it appears that we are very good at criticizing theories. The problem is not criticizing theories, but the instrumentation necessary, and cost of criticizing those theories.

    Popper did no research, he made only an a priori assumption. It certainly APPEARS that in choosing between alternatives the least-cost method leads to discovery if for no other reason than the universe operates by least cost itself.

    So the statement that we know nothing for certain is not an empirical, and not even a logical, but a moral one: that we cannot use theories of arbitrary precision to impose costs upon one another, under the appeal to the authority of truth or science.

    3) But Popperians like many libertarians, seem to habitually seek to justify exporting of costs in order to satisfy their needs for novelty and order (Big5: Openness to experience, Moral Foundations: economic and personal liberty. Propertarianism: acquisition of novel experiences. )

    And popper is visibly circumventing costs in hist arguments, as if we are not speaking of a physical and material world, but a verbal, legal, or platonic one.

    Just as progressives seek to export their experiments ‘for the common good’ onto others. Just as conservatives wish to export their concern for risk-abatement onto others. Libertarians seek to export their admittedly lower cost of self stimulation onto others without taking care that they have performed due diligence against falsehood – if not also immorality (harm).

    When (a) the empirical evidence suggests that we do kill off false theories very quickly, (b) that we are largely engaged in the process of refining theories, not falsifying them, (d) that the number of theories that are ‘challenging’ is fairly small, but the number of falsehoods extant are very large (c) that least-cost is indeed a method of aggregate decidability (critical preference) (d) that it is far more expensive to construct a falsification of a welcome error or deception than it is to produce a welcome error or deception.

    4) Popper/Darwin’s innovation was the systemic use of ‘survival’ over historical ‘justification for being’, meaning that he inverted the search for truth from accumulating justifications for hypotheses: as Rodin builds his sculpture from clay; into accumulating criticisms to see if the theory survives: as Michelangelo removes the rock to expose the potential sculpture underneath.

    So why would we seek to advance knowledge rather than eliminate lies and falsehoods? Why would we not worry more about preventing false and deceitful intellectual products more so than truthful ones?

    Would that not direct capital (costs) to truthful rather than untruthful results?

    So you see – this problem of costs, so fundamental to the natural laws of human behavior, and the physical laws of the extant universe is absent from popperian thought.

    And I am always struck with “why?”

    Popper was a cosmopolitan just as I am an anglo empiricist, and Kant is a german rationalist. Popper’s tradition was religion, religious law, avoidance of paying into the commons, willing, if not advocacy of, privatization of the commons, and an avoidance of externalized costs so universal to western thought that we are unaware of alternative methods of thinking.

    None of us escape our framings.

    But popper’s vision was incomplete. He ‘hooked onto’ falsification (survival) as a life raft, but he didn’t grasp that each dimension of existence requires us to perform due diligence (which again, is a cost-based framing, whereas falsification is a legal or religious based framing).

    Warranties of Due Diligence:

    – categorical consistency (non-conflation)

    – Internal consistency (logical)

    – external correspondence (empirical consistency)

    – existential consistency (operational definitions)

    – full accounting ( against selection bias )

    – parsimony and limits ( precision )

    – morality – ( natural law of cooperation) consisting of productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer, limited to externalities of the same criteria.)

    Because having performed these due diligences, it is extremely difficult to engage in error, bias, wishful thinking, loading-framing-overloading-suggestion, and deceit.

    In fact, it would be almost impossible. Simply stating most arguments analytically in operational language causes self refutation.

    Hence the only reasons to escape these due diligences are;

    1 – because one is merely ignorant that such a warranty of due diligence can be performed, or how to perform it.

    2 – to escape paying costs of due diligence, like the distributor of faulty products.

    3 – to deceive or profit from, or achieve conquest by, the distribution of wishful thinking and deceit.

    4 – because we do not limit the market for distribution of intellectual works to those which are warrantied of due diligence, by treating the informational commons like we do the air, land, and sea: as commons that must be protected from harm; and under universal standing allowing us to pursue restitution for such harm against those who fail to perform due diligence on their intellectual products.

    This may be a bit to digest, but you can see between the scope of your argument and the scope of mine the demonstration of the technique.

    Cheers

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine


    Source date (UTC): 2016-02-04 05:02:00 UTC

  • Q&A: GREAT QUESTION! —“CURT: Can you explain your disdain for “rationalism”? A

    Q&A: GREAT QUESTION!

    —“CURT: Can you explain your disdain for “rationalism”? And how differentiate it with critical-rationalism?”—

    SIMPLE ANSWER ON DIFFERENCES : SCOPE OF YOUR WARRANTY

    1) Rationalism requires we test for internal consistency(logical) and non contradiction(not false), but not that we test for external correspondence (empirically consistent) in order to attempt to falsify our ideas (hypotheses). In other words we don’t have to warranty that our ideas are externallly correspondent. We can claim that we have been forthright (rational) and free of blame for having made rational choices.

    2) Critical rationalism requires that we test for internal consistency, and external correspondence, and that we attempt to falsify them because confirming them is meaningless..

    3) Testimonialism asks us to test by rationalism, critical rationalism, and moral objectivity.

    SIMPLE ANSWER ON RATIONALISM IN ETHICS

    In the sequence: pedagogical ethics, virtue ethics, rule ethics, outcome ethics, and testimonial ethics, each describes the ethical model one must rely upon given one’s knowledge and understanding.

    Now if one uses an ethical model lower than one’s understanding, then one can intentionally use that lower ethical criteria to justify unethical behavior.

    This is what libertines (libertarians) do, when they refer to the NAP and self determination of morality. They are claiming non-responsibiity for externalities caused by their actions.

    So you sort of have to warranty your actions by using an ethical system someone will believe you are not using for theft.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-15 12:07:00 UTC