Curt Doolittle

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  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. Interesting that Chomsky heaps undue praise o

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    Interesting that Chomsky heaps undue praise on Galileo, but not Copernicus, Descartes, Newton or others. He always has an agenda. I think his agenda is anti-everything. And so he gives Galileo undue praise for his battles with the church.

    —“The Aristotelian scientific tradition’s primary mode of interacting with the world was through observation and searching for “natural” circumstances through reasoning. Coupled with this approach was the belief that rare events which seemed to contradict theoretical models were aberrations, telling nothing about nature as it “naturally” was.

    By the start of the Scientific Revolution, empiricism had already become an important component of science and natural philosophy. Prior thinkers, including the early 14th century nominalist philosopher William of Ockham, had begun the intellectual movement toward empiricism.

    The term British empiricism came into use to describe philosophical differences perceived between two of its founders Francis Bacon, described as EMPIRICIST, and René Descartes, who was described as a RATIONALIST.

    (CURT: IT BEGINS WITH DESCARTES.. EVEN BEFORE ROUSSEAU)

    Thomas Hobbes, George Berkeley, and David Hume were the philosophy’s primary exponents, who developed a sophisticated empirical tradition as the basis of human knowledge.

    An influential formulation of empiricism was John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), in which he maintained that the only true knowledge that could be accessible to the human mind was that which was based on experience. He wrote that the human mind was created as a tabula rasa, a “blank tablet,” upon which sensory impressions were recorded and built up knowledge through a process of reflection.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-23 21:31:44 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. COPERNICUS’ CHILDREN Copernicus never married

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    COPERNICUS’ CHILDREN

    Copernicus never married and is not known to have had children, but from at least 1531 until 1539 his relations with Anna Schilling, a live-in housekeeper, were seen as scandalous by two bishops of Warmia who urged him over the years to break off relations with his “mistress”. His sister Katharina married the businessman and Toruń city councilor Barthel Gertner and left five children, whom Copernicus looked after to the end of his life.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-23 21:14:54 UTC

  • Chomsky Heaps Undue Praise on Galileo

    Interesting that Chomsky heaps undue praise on Galileo, but not Copernicus, Descartes, Newton or others. He always has an agenda. I think his agenda is anti-everything. And so he gives Galileo undue praise for his battles with the church. —“The Aristotelian scientific tradition’s primary mode of interacting with the world was through observation and searching for “natural” circumstances through reasoning. Coupled with this approach was the belief that rare events which seemed to contradict theoretical models were aberrations, telling nothing about nature as it “naturally” was. By the start of the Scientific Revolution, empiricism had already become an important component of science and natural philosophy. Prior thinkers, including the early 14th century nominalist philosopher William of Ockham, had begun the intellectual movement toward empiricism. The term British empiricism came into use to describe philosophical differences perceived between two of its founders Francis Bacon, described as EMPIRICIST, and René Descartes, who was described as a RATIONALIST. (CURT: IT BEGINS WITH DESCARTES.. EVEN BEFORE ROUSSEAU) Thomas Hobbes, George Berkeley, and David Hume were the philosophy’s primary exponents, who developed a sophisticated empirical tradition as the basis of human knowledge. An influential formulation of empiricism was John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), in which he maintained that the only true knowledge that could be accessible to the human mind was that which was based on experience. He wrote that the human mind was created as a tabula rasa, a “blank tablet,” upon which sensory impressions were recorded and built up knowledge through a process of reflection.”—

  • Chomsky Heaps Undue Praise on Galileo

    Interesting that Chomsky heaps undue praise on Galileo, but not Copernicus, Descartes, Newton or others. He always has an agenda. I think his agenda is anti-everything. And so he gives Galileo undue praise for his battles with the church. —“The Aristotelian scientific tradition’s primary mode of interacting with the world was through observation and searching for “natural” circumstances through reasoning. Coupled with this approach was the belief that rare events which seemed to contradict theoretical models were aberrations, telling nothing about nature as it “naturally” was. By the start of the Scientific Revolution, empiricism had already become an important component of science and natural philosophy. Prior thinkers, including the early 14th century nominalist philosopher William of Ockham, had begun the intellectual movement toward empiricism. The term British empiricism came into use to describe philosophical differences perceived between two of its founders Francis Bacon, described as EMPIRICIST, and René Descartes, who was described as a RATIONALIST. (CURT: IT BEGINS WITH DESCARTES.. EVEN BEFORE ROUSSEAU) Thomas Hobbes, George Berkeley, and David Hume were the philosophy’s primary exponents, who developed a sophisticated empirical tradition as the basis of human knowledge. An influential formulation of empiricism was John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), in which he maintained that the only true knowledge that could be accessible to the human mind was that which was based on experience. He wrote that the human mind was created as a tabula rasa, a “blank tablet,” upon which sensory impressions were recorded and built up knowledge through a process of reflection.”—

  • Interesting that Chomsky heaps undue praise on Galileo, but not Copernicus, Desc

    Interesting that Chomsky heaps undue praise on Galileo, but not Copernicus, Descartes, Newton or others. He always has an agenda. I think his agenda is anti-everything. And so he gives Galileo undue praise for his battles with the church.

    —“The Aristotelian scientific tradition’s primary mode of interacting with the world was through observation and searching for “natural” circumstances through reasoning. Coupled with this approach was the belief that rare events which seemed to contradict theoretical models were aberrations, telling nothing about nature as it “naturally” was.

    By the start of the Scientific Revolution, empiricism had already become an important component of science and natural philosophy. Prior thinkers, including the early 14th century nominalist philosopher William of Ockham, had begun the intellectual movement toward empiricism.

    The term British empiricism came into use to describe philosophical differences perceived between two of its founders Francis Bacon, described as EMPIRICIST, and René Descartes, who was described as a RATIONALIST.

    (CURT: IT BEGINS WITH DESCARTES.. EVEN BEFORE ROUSSEAU)

    Thomas Hobbes, George Berkeley, and David Hume were the philosophy’s primary exponents, who developed a sophisticated empirical tradition as the basis of human knowledge.

    An influential formulation of empiricism was John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), in which he maintained that the only true knowledge that could be accessible to the human mind was that which was based on experience. He wrote that the human mind was created as a tabula rasa, a “blank tablet,” upon which sensory impressions were recorded and built up knowledge through a process of reflection.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-23 17:31:00 UTC

  • GALILEO’S CHILDREN Despite being a genuinely pious Roman Catholic, Galileo fathe

    GALILEO’S CHILDREN

    Despite being a genuinely pious Roman Catholic, Galileo fathered three children out of wedlock with Marina Gamba. They had two daughters, Virginia (born in 1600) and Livia (born in 1601), and a son, Vincenzo (born in 1606).

    Because of their illegitimate birth, their father considered the girls unmarriageable, if not posing problems of prohibitively expensive support or dowries, which would have been similar to Galileo’s previous extensive financial problems with two of his sisters.

    Their only worthy alternative was the religious life. Both girls were accepted by the convent of San Matteo in Arcetri and remained there for the rest of their lives.

    Virginia took the name Maria Celeste upon entering the convent. She died on 2 April 1634, and is buried with Galileo at the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence.

    Livia took the name Sister Arcangela and was ill for most of her life. Vincenzo was later legitimised as the legal heir of Galileo and married Sestilia Bocchineri.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-23 17:12:00 UTC

  • —“What do you use as a basis for your research?”— A Friend

    —“What do you use as a basis for your research?”— A Friend Maybe I don’t understand the question…. I mean. I have a very deliberate methodology. Mostly the history of (a) group competitive strategies, (b) geography (c) economics, (d) political orders, (e) laws, (f) methods of argument (grammars). And I use propertarianism (Vitruvianism, Acquisitionism, Propertarianism, Testimonialism, and Natural Law) to perform the analysis. The difficult part of the work is deflating history into Propertarian terms so that all group actions are commensurable. This often requires attacking a proposition until only the truth (in Testimonial terms) remains. And in particular attacking most sacred presumptions and values. And that takes a great deal of time. I have to work long enough that I’ve defeated my own biases as best I can as well. In other words I look at the actions ( inputs, operations, and outputs) not the excuses (what people say about them), and explain the world as the different tactics we use to acquire. The methodology is something I understand very well. Unfortunately it is rather difficult to possess sufficient knowledge to employ it. As such it’s just as hard as any of the other sciences.

  • —“What do you use as a basis for your research?”— A Friend

    —“What do you use as a basis for your research?”— A Friend Maybe I don’t understand the question…. I mean. I have a very deliberate methodology. Mostly the history of (a) group competitive strategies, (b) geography (c) economics, (d) political orders, (e) laws, (f) methods of argument (grammars). And I use propertarianism (Vitruvianism, Acquisitionism, Propertarianism, Testimonialism, and Natural Law) to perform the analysis. The difficult part of the work is deflating history into Propertarian terms so that all group actions are commensurable. This often requires attacking a proposition until only the truth (in Testimonial terms) remains. And in particular attacking most sacred presumptions and values. And that takes a great deal of time. I have to work long enough that I’ve defeated my own biases as best I can as well. In other words I look at the actions ( inputs, operations, and outputs) not the excuses (what people say about them), and explain the world as the different tactics we use to acquire. The methodology is something I understand very well. Unfortunately it is rather difficult to possess sufficient knowledge to employ it. As such it’s just as hard as any of the other sciences.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. —“What do you use as a basis for your resea

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    —“What do you use as a basis for your research?”— A Friend

    Maybe I don’t understand the question….

    I mean. I have a very deliberate methodology.

    Mostly the history of (a) group competitive strategies, (b) geography (c) economics, (d) political orders, (e) laws, (f) methods of argument (grammars). And I use propertarianism (Vitruvianism, Acquisitionism, Propertarianism, Testimonialism, and Natural Law) to perform the analysis.

    The difficult part of the work is deflating history into Propertarian terms so that all group actions are commensurable.

    This often requires attacking a proposition until only the truth (in Testimonial terms) remains. And in particular attacking most sacred presumptions and values. And that takes a great deal of time. I have to work long enough that I’ve defeated my own biases as best I can as well.

    In other words I look at the actions ( inputs, operations, and outputs) not the excuses (what people say about them), and explain the world as the different tactics we use to acquire.

    The methodology is something I understand very well. Unfortunately it is rather difficult to possess sufficient knowledge to employ it. As such it’s just as hard as any of the other sciences.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-22 13:05:37 UTC

  • “What do you use as a basis for your research?”— A Friend Maybe I don’t unders

    —“What do you use as a basis for your research?”— A Friend

    Maybe I don’t understand the question….

    I mean. I have a very deliberate methodology.

    Mostly the history of (a) group competitive strategies, (b) geography (c) economics, (d) political orders, (e) laws, (f) methods of argument (grammars). And I use propertarianism (Vitruvianism, Acquisitionism, Propertarianism, Testimonialism, and Natural Law) to perform the analysis.

    The difficult part of the work is deflating history into Propertarian terms so that all group actions are commensurable.

    This often requires attacking a proposition until only the truth (in Testimonial terms) remains. And in particular attacking most sacred presumptions and values. And that takes a great deal of time. I have to work long enough that I’ve defeated my own biases as best I can as well.

    In other words I look at the actions ( inputs, operations, and outputs) not the excuses (what people say about them), and explain the world as the different tactics we use to acquire.

    The methodology is something I understand very well. Unfortunately it is rather difficult to possess sufficient knowledge to employ it. As such it’s just as hard as any of the other sciences.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-22 09:05:00 UTC