Curt Doolittle

Theme: Truth

  • The term ‘exists’ is a precise word that can be misused for many purposes of dec

    The term ‘exists’ is a precise word that can be misused for many purposes of deception. It is better to say ‘demonstrated’, ‘used’ or ‘known’ when referring to categories in memory, and to reserve existence for the physical. ie: perceived > experienced > known > demonstrated > existential. So, for example, we use the name hyperbole to refer to our oft demonstrated use of exaggeration for the purposes of illustration of some properties we wish to draw attention to. Does hyperbole exist, or is the term hyperbole known, and do people demonstrate that they use the term to refer to exaggeration? For hyperbole exist we require the ideal exist. For the term to be known, for people to act, and for things to exist. The ideal like the supernatural is a term that refers to something magical. knowing (remembering), acting, and existing are not supernatural.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-07 21:17:00 UTC

  • I think, to preserve truth, we must distinguish between: 1 – Scientists (physica

    I think, to preserve truth, we must distinguish between:

    1 – Scientists (physical scientists) and;

    2 – Pseudoscientists ( psychological, social, economic, and; political pseudoscientists),

    3 – Pseudo-rationalists ( moral fictionalists, philosophers ) and;

    4 – Mystics (theologians, occultists);

    What I’m trying to create is ‘testimonialists’ : the science of truthful speech. Which will end the lies of 2,3, and 4

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-07 09:10:00 UTC

  • THE VALUE OF STATUS DEPRECATING SPEECH The only reason to prohibit status-deprec

    THE VALUE OF STATUS DEPRECATING SPEECH

    The only reason to prohibit status-depreciating speech is to increase revenues. But one’s right to revenues ends where falsehood begins. Why? Because the function of status deprecating speech is to prevent imposition of costs upon the commons: the assets in the markets for association, cooperation, reproduction, production, production of commons, of polities, and of war.

    (insults are important means of defense of the commons)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-07 07:48:00 UTC

  • by John Stephens The Dunning Krueger effect, combined with the unholy trinity of

    by John Stephens

    The Dunning Krueger effect, combined with the unholy trinity of:

    … 1) Cognitive Dissonance,

    … 2) Confirmation Bias, and

    … 3) Motivated Reasoning;

    – is devastating. Especially Motivated reasoning.

    When someone has the natural tendency to question authority, or are heavily biased to feel Anti-authority, they find it much easier to accept the alternative narratives as truth without giving it the same scrutiny as the authority’s narratives.

    I readily admit that one of the hardest things I have ever had to learn to do is to let go of my biases. As someone who questions everything and everyone, learning to put my own stances and beliefs through that same scrutiny as I do with others, is extremely difficult. But it is as important and necessary as anything I have learned.

    I go so far as to reject it outright if I find agreement at first, until after failing to formulate arguments against. I then have no choice but to accept it.

    That is why it is taking me so long to get through even the basics of Propertarianism. Since it spoke to me at the first reading, I have had to reject it until I couldn’t.

    That, and that there are only so many hours in a day.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-06 16:38:00 UTC

  • ( Oh. FWIW: I consider myself a scientist of testimonial speech – truthful speec

    ( Oh. FWIW: I consider myself a scientist of testimonial speech – truthful speech. The fact that I use the term philosophy is largely so that I can debunk it as consisting almost entirely of fictionalisms. *Never let an enemy leave the field alive.* )

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-06 14:22:00 UTC

  • THE PROBLEM OF ANCHORING AND KNOWLEDGE NEVER ENDS —“”A little knowledge is a d

    THE PROBLEM OF ANCHORING AND KNOWLEDGE NEVER ENDS

    —“”A little knowledge is a dangerous thing”? I don’t know about that. I have found many “experts” today are elitist. I run into the “how dare you question my position? What is your scholarship/training/etc.” more often than not. “Who are you to impugn my scholarship?” Then again, maybe I represent the quote with my own hubris?”— John Stephens

    Well you know, you aren’t wrong – that’s just saying: “there are limits of knowledge anchoring and insufficiency at the bottom, and limits of knowledge anchoring and insufficiency at the top” – which is empirically true the more variation in general rules. We are anchored by our knowledge and its limits. For example, the set of general rules in physics, and chemistry are not heavily debated, in some part because they are contextually invariant. The set of general rules in biology and economics are heavily debated because niches demonstrate adaptivity : extraordinary variation. Such that while some general rules are discovered, the combinatorial consequences of those general rules are extremely difficult to pin down. Economics in particular. I assume when we get to sentience (artificial intelligence)that the limits to cognition will be measurable, and we will learn about the human mind through those measurements.

    I think that what I do, and what others do, is to save time and effort by throwing nonsense back in your face, simply so that you don’t have to deal with helping someone through a long journey from their assumptions to sufficient knowledge to question them. I mean. We’re all human.

    I think moreover, that – at least, since having converted full time to philosophy – my observation is that many men know their craft but not *why* their craft yields truthful propositions *relative to other crafts*. In other words, *they just don’t know.* And they don’t want to be ‘outed’.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-06 14:07:00 UTC

  • (worth repeating) —“When we verify through testing by our best empirical metho

    (worth repeating)

    —“When we verify through testing by our best empirical methods, our arguments gain credibility from *reality*. When we assert based on a-priorisms which can not be found in reality we use logic to “steal credibility from reality” – we assert it as reality without consulting reality- a transfer of credibility from existence in reality, to the subjective untestable, invisible, personal opinion.”— Bill Joslin

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-06 13:53:00 UTC

  • by Bill Joslin —“Curt equates a lack of due diligence to vet ones ideas agains

    by Bill Joslin

    —“Curt equates a lack of due diligence to vet ones ideas against error, bias, self deception, overloading etc as lying. Any primacy of consciousness or theism stands as arguing for a preference opposed to arguing a point in the commons.

    Theism and primacy of-conciousness are not verifiable in the commons – to proceed with them you must accept these premises.

    ***When we verify via our best empirical methods, our arguments gain credibility from reality. When we assert based on a priorisms which can not be found in reality we use logic to “steal credibility from reality” – we assert it as reality without consulting reality- a transfer of credibility from existence in reality, to the interpretive framework.***

    If an argument holds arbitrary assertions we can dismiss it off-hand. (If asserted without evidence it can be dismissed without evidence)”—

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-06 13:51:00 UTC

  • Language isn’t magic. People are too trusting and too suggestible. That’s why re

    Language isn’t magic. People are too trusting and too suggestible. That’s why religion works. That’s why postmodernism works.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-05 19:50:00 UTC

  • THE SCIENCE OF TRUTHFUL SPEECH: TESTIMONIALISM Operationalism provides a *measur

    THE SCIENCE OF TRUTHFUL SPEECH: TESTIMONIALISM

    Operationalism provides a *measurement* of ordinary language by fully expanding all sentences, reducing all sentences to a series operationally and therefore subjectively testable statements. Then using precise definitions of terms, stated in operational language, whose limits we have calculated by enumerating all related terms in a series. Science requires measurements as a means of falsifying against ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, fictionalism, and deceit. Strictly constructed, algorithmic expression of arguments in operational grammar: “actor, incentive, action, noun, change in state, result and resulting externalities”, produces a value neutral, subjectively (humanly) testable, language of truthful speech for the production of law, contract, argument, criticism, and illustration independent of value judgement.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-05 19:21:00 UTC