Curt Doolittle

Theme: Truth

  • Science Won. Philosophy Is Done.

    I don’t really know anyone who writes philosophy outside of science and logic that is anything but moral fictionalist. There are scientists, and logicians, and fictionalists. We have moral fiction, religious fiction, science fiction, we and fiction proper, as well as pseudoscience, pseudo religion, and pseudo-philosophy(pseudo-rationalism). We all daydream in our favorite method of daydreaming. Unfortunately some people conflate the fictional, with the achievable, with the true. Each is obvious from the grammar and semantics they make use of. It’s not an opinion, it’s simply fact. —“Your statement is philosophy.”— Cat Tibath My statement is one of science. That science is testimony. In this case, the grammar and semantics of truths, fictions and falsehoods. As far as I know, traditional grammar and semantics of philosophy is done as other than fictionalism (pseudoscience). Either we are seeking testimonial (true) speech or we are seeking something not testimonial (true). And instead seeking the preferable and the good. And as far as I know, that is all that is left for philosophy: choice of individual preference, and group preference (good). For that which is true, moral, ethical is just science. And that which is good or preferable is merely choosable by aesthetics, not decidable by truth. The vast majority of philosophy, and in particular all conteinental philosophy, is, as far as I know, moral fictionalism by people too lacking in interpersonal insight to write a great novel. 　 Science won.

  • Science Won. Philosophy Is Done.

    I don’t really know anyone who writes philosophy outside of science and logic that is anything but moral fictionalist. There are scientists, and logicians, and fictionalists. We have moral fiction, religious fiction, science fiction, we and fiction proper, as well as pseudoscience, pseudo religion, and pseudo-philosophy(pseudo-rationalism). We all daydream in our favorite method of daydreaming. Unfortunately some people conflate the fictional, with the achievable, with the true. Each is obvious from the grammar and semantics they make use of. It’s not an opinion, it’s simply fact. —“Your statement is philosophy.”— Cat Tibath My statement is one of science. That science is testimony. In this case, the grammar and semantics of truths, fictions and falsehoods. As far as I know, traditional grammar and semantics of philosophy is done as other than fictionalism (pseudoscience). Either we are seeking testimonial (true) speech or we are seeking something not testimonial (true). And instead seeking the preferable and the good. And as far as I know, that is all that is left for philosophy: choice of individual preference, and group preference (good). For that which is true, moral, ethical is just science. And that which is good or preferable is merely choosable by aesthetics, not decidable by truth. The vast majority of philosophy, and in particular all conteinental philosophy, is, as far as I know, moral fictionalism by people too lacking in interpersonal insight to write a great novel. 　 Science won.

  • No. We just do as we already do, wich is that we require due diligence against a

    No. We just do as we already do, wich is that we require due diligence against a list of requirements, all of which are not all that difficult, before we make public speech. If that is done, then it is simply error, not deceit, or discounting (laziness).

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-21 01:57:04 UTC

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  • BTW: the law requires due diligence. The same is true for truthful speech. It is

    BTW: the law requires due diligence. The same is true for truthful speech. It is very possible (I know you don’t know this yet, but I with some time I could show you) that it is very possible to perform due diligence on ALL our speech, not just commercial and scientific.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-21 01:55:59 UTC

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  • we do it all the time, dont we? (re:’austrian’) if sympathetic testing of incent

    we do it all the time, dont we? (re:’austrian’) if sympathetic testing of incentives is not viable then all of austrian economics is fraud right? We use sympathetic testing in law, and operational economics is not false for the same reason.We can only cooperate b/c symp. testing.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-21 01:54:47 UTC

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  • we require warranty of all sorts of speech in he markes. why not economic and po

    we require warranty of all sorts of speech in he markes. why not economic and political speech? why not restore libel and slander and extend warranty o due diligence from commercial to informational markets. Why is ant attempt to steal by force of government legal?

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-21 01:19:01 UTC

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  • The reason we had free speech is that it was im possible at the time to determin

    The reason we had free speech is that it was im possible at the time to determine truthful speech – and today it is not. I mean, the entire attack on western civilization by abrahamists in the ancient and modern world, was done by lying: pseudoscience and pseudo rationalism.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-21 00:23:00 UTC

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    @TheAustrian_ Speech is an action. If speech did not have the effect of actions, then ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, and deceit, would be irrelevant. But in all societies everywhere we have limited speech.

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    @TheAustrian_ Speech is an action. If speech did not have the effect of actions, then ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, and deceit, would be irrelevant. But in all societies everywhere we have limited speech.

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  • The worst discount societies take is making it comfortable to assert in public o

    The worst discount societies take is making it comfortable to assert in public one’s ignorant, erroneous, biased, wishfully-thought, suggestive, obscurant, fictionalst opinions without fear of punishment for the damage they cause. Why not warranty speech as we do all else? #trump

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-20 23:13:15 UTC

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  • The worst discount a society creates makes it comfortable to assert in public th

    The worst discount a society creates makes it comfortable to assert in public the ignorant, erroneous, biased, wishfully-thought, suggestive, obscurant, fictionalst opinions without fear of punishment for the damage they cause. Why not warranty speech as we do all else? #trump

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-20 23:03:29 UTC

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  • Humor is the best defense of ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking and deceit

    Humor is the best defense of ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking and deceit. Yes.

    The rest of us calculate, reason, and decide. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-20 21:39:57 UTC

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