Theme: Religion

THE CURE FOR SUGGESTION AND DECEIT.

Rationalism was invented to attempt to reconstruct christianity without mysticism. I understand the great deceits. It’s but one of them.

Rationalism’s Obscurantism and Scriptural Mysticism are similar techniques. The Contemporary version uses propaganda and repetition. But the technique is reducible to suggestion by loading framing and overloading in all three. Suggestion works. The science says that we can’t even defend ourselves from it even if we work hard at it.

This is why we invented analytic philosophy and operational definitions in science. And why I have completed that project with testimonialism and propertarianism.

To make suggestion impossible.

At least to make it impossible in matters of finance, politics and law where it can be so readily used for ill.

Suggestion is necessary or teaching each other by analogy would be impossible.

Suggestion is necessary or supposition of intent would be impossible.

Supposition of intent is necessary or cooperation is impossible.

Cooperation is necessary or a division of labor and exchange is impossible.

But in all human cooperation and all transfer there is a difference between suggestion of meaning, and the test of truth.

We have been, as normal humans, attempting to define a single test of truth for millennia. But we have failed.

Because epistemology requires the transfer of meaning by suggestion, and the test of truth by criticism.

As such the single most important solution to communication is to limit the divergence between the means of communicating meaning, and the means of criticizing meaning.

This is what I believe we, I, have accomplished: to speak in a manner that the least difference between meaning and truth exists.

This is testimonialism and propertarianism.

The scientific method is a process of creativity followed by criticism. invention followed by testing. Imagination followed by survival from scrutiny.

The easiest way to limit suggestion is to refer to existential operations using a continuous point of view.

Operationalism.

With the tests of operationalism, we slowly train ourselves to speak the truth, just as we have slowly trained ourselves to speak in the language of science instead of the language of mystical analogy.

And the benefits of this truthfulness will be as great as the benefits of science.