Curt Doolittle

Theme: Truth

  • “Keep Ignorance Private.”—Ulysses Aaron Cartwright

    —“Keep Ignorance Private.”—Ulysses Aaron Cartwright

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-29 23:47:00 UTC

  • I don’t call people names. I simply state existential facts. if they apply that

    I don’t call people names. I simply state existential facts. if they apply that is what it is. (The mirror always lies)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-29 21:26:04 UTC

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  • PHILOSOPHERS NOW DEMOTED TO THE SAME RANKS AS THEOLOGIANS. Philosophers criticiz

    PHILOSOPHERS NOW DEMOTED TO THE SAME RANKS AS THEOLOGIANS.

    Philosophers criticize Theologians for archaic reasoning, and scientists criticize philosophers for archaic reasoning, and now Testimonialists get to criticize even scientists for archaic reasoning; criticize philosophers aggressively, and criticize theologians dismissively to the point of prosecutorally.

    I know, I know, I know….. Most people are over-invested in nonsense-philosophy as tools of categorization the same way that most people are over invested in theology, and the way that most people are subconsciously incapable of reversing their over-investment in justificationism, and consciously incapable of reversing their desire for monopoly decidability in justificationism.

    That point of demarcation( the error of monopoly, justificationary, decidability) may in fact function as the point of demarcation between post-human and human, the way agency functions as the point of self determination between human and domesticated animal. The way that observation of property in toto functions as the point of demarcation between domesticated animal and beast.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-28 17:23:00 UTC

  • TRUTH IS A MERCILESS GOD If your comforting lies are so precious that you will n

    TRUTH IS A MERCILESS GOD

    If your comforting lies are so precious that you will not burn them along with the comforting lies of the left, then you are not one of us, but one of them – no matter what comforting lies you tell yourself.

    Truth is a merciless god.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-28 15:48:00 UTC

  • “Testimonialism is not about identifying truth but about reporting truthfully.”-

    —“Testimonialism is not about identifying truth but about reporting truthfully.”— Bill Joslin

    Survival in the market of criticism (tests) is all we can know.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-28 12:39:00 UTC

  • Vi veri universum vivus vici “By the power of truth I, a mortal, have conquered

    Vi veri universum vivus vici

    “By the power of truth I, a mortal, have conquered all creation.”

    by force of truth, the universe, I mortal, have conquered

    (via Joel Davis)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-27 21:58:00 UTC

  • ( Only a few people will understand this but I”m going to do the best I can in a

    ( Only a few people will understand this but I”m going to do the best I can in a small number of words ’cause I”m pretty busy writing code at the moment.)

    —“Münchhausen trilemma”—

    I think it’s nonsense. Since it is justificationary it’s nonsense. In modern terms we simply say that no set of operations can be used to define itself.

    But, like the liars paradox, this is a false dilemma. It is impossible to construct a liars paradox using complete sentences. (really)

    It is impossible to construct a question of the trilemma using complete sentences. It is also impossible to ask a question consisting of complete information other than stating a tautology.

    First, a proof consists of a test of internal consistency, not informational completeness, nor external correspondence. To construct a proof is not to demonstrate a truth. The truth lies in the promise that one’s proof is internally consistent. (really)

    Decidability is provided by willingness to act with partial information.

    Ergo his very question is a catastrophic error of reasoning by confusing closed axiomatic systems uttered verbally (an analogy) and therefore falsely, with open theoretic systems uttered as truthfully as possible given the universal sparsely distributed information that people must comprehend and act with.

    I don’t call these people liars and charlatans as much as idiots. But then, I am lucky to live in an era where we have enough experience with computability that we now understand how stupid all this victorian babble really is.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-27 16:04:00 UTC

  • THE FUNCTION OF A PHILOSOPHER The function of a philosopher is to identify and c

    THE FUNCTION OF A PHILOSOPHER

    The function of a philosopher is to identify and construct general rules of greater precision than the generation of philosophers that came before him – if he is lucky. Otherwise, if that previous generation was not less precise, but just wrong, then he has either to start from the generation before them, and so on, and so on, until some generation is no so much wrong, as imprecise. In our case it appears one has to go back quite a few. ‘Cause, at least, a whole lotta people got it a lot more wrong than right since the dawn of the scientific enlightenment. And if not for Poincare, Maxwell, Darwin, Spencer, Durkheim, Menger, Hayek, Nietzsche, the pre-raphelites and the romanticists, we’d have to rewind all the way back to Locke, Smith, Hume, and Jefferson. I mean. For the past few centuries, we’ve produced so called ‘philosophers’ by the box-car load. And I’m not sure they differ all that much from romance novelists, comic books, and slapstick playwrights. The pretense of wit – particularly with language – is a measure of the population willing to consume it. Popularity is not a measure of truth but of ignorance. Truth is complicated. Otherwise we wouldn’t need the few philosophers and scientists that succeed.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-27 15:39:00 UTC

  • “Sky Father”, Dyaus Pitar Zeus Pater Jupiter Odin God Truth Prometheus

    “Sky Father”,

    Dyaus Pitar

    Zeus Pater

    Jupiter

    Odin

    God

    Truth

    Prometheus

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-27 14:13:00 UTC

  • There no reason for Defamation, Libel, and Slander to cause damage under common

    There no reason for Defamation, Libel, and Slander to cause damage under common law. This leads to nonsense. The only natural law requirement for defamation, libel, and slander is that the speech is false. In fact, I am not sure, given the Cosmopolitan history of “heaping undue praise” that “undue praise” should not accompany defamation, libel, and slander.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-27 13:36:00 UTC