“Q: CURT: CAN YOU EXPLAIN FALSIFICATION?”
(a better explanation than you will find elsewhere)
0) Science consists of the production of testimony to observables whether physical or logical, by sense perception or perception via instrumentation(measures).
1) falsification evolved to separate the testifiable (science) from the untestifiable (not science) especially as our questions of complexity surpassed human scale, and human scales of experience, whether by the vary many people, the very small in the universe, the very large in the universe, or over very long times.
2) In order of certainty we find undecidable > possibly true > certainly false – falsehood is more certain than truth.
3) A proof is a test of possibility within the limits of premises (presumptions) – not a certainty.
4) Therefore, survival from falsification is the highest standard of certainty.
5) And falsifiability is the first test of survival from falsification.
6) As such, justification is a means only of explanation of why you did something. And survival of falsification is the only possible truth claim.
7) As such, claims of potential are the result of costly due diligence over cheap justification.
8) Where there are twelve dimensions of falsification available that are observable by logical or physical means of instrumentation, that are reducible to analogy to human experience and therefore subjectively testable for consistency and coherence by human faculties.
8) Those dimensions are realism, naturalism, identity, internal consistency (logic), operational possibility, external correspondence, bounded rational choice, reciprocity of bounded rational choice, consequence to capital in demonstrated interests, fully accounted, within stated limits, and within limits of restitutability.
That’s falsification, which is due diligence, in the production of testimony, to that which is testifiable, in order to defeat the natural human intuition for inexpensive justification, and the tendency for all humans to engage in ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, magical thinking, loading, framing, obscuring, the fictionalisms of magic to pseudomathematics and pseudoscience, sophistry to idealism(philosophy), and occult to supernaturalism(theology), fiction (lying), denial, evasion, projection, accusation, undermining, sedition, and treason.
Man did not evolve to speak the truth but to negotiate. Speaking the truth instead of from our biases justifications and excuses requires discipline and training. 😉
Cheers
Curt Doolittle
The Natural Law Institute
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