Curt Doolittle

Theme: Truth

  • THOUGHTS: ON TEACHING PROPERTARIANISM. (currently editing) SPEAKING THE TRUTH 1)

    THOUGHTS: ON TEACHING PROPERTARIANISM.

    (currently editing)

    SPEAKING THE TRUTH

    1) Conceptual comparisons by: unique instances, ideal types, golden means(spectra), multi-axis (supply-demand), multi-axis-intertemporal(incentive models),

    2) The hierarchy of arguments and how to identify each: emotional reaction, moral reaction, rational argument, historical analogy, empirical analogy, scientific-experimental analogy, economic-empirical analogy, operational description.

    3) The Points of view: Imaginary, Experiential, Rational, Observational, Operational.

    4) Testimonial truth – what it means to speak truthfully (morally-scientifically)

    5) The logical instruments: identity, naming and numbering, relations (mathematics), logic, causality(physics), exchange (cooperation)

    6) the requirements for speaking truthfully: Internal consistency(logic), external correspondence (correlation),existential possibility(operations)

    7) The application of the requirements to the spectrum of logics.

    8) The explanation of the errors of mysticism, mythology, narrative, rationalism, pseudoscience and scientism and how to avoid them.

    This I can do. It’s the hardest part. But this I can do.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-07 06:55:00 UTC

  • (choice words) –“The net is that we would all be better off if we just honestly

    (choice words)

    –“The net is that we would all be better off if we just honestly pursued the scientific truth rather than invented universalism(error), rationalism (justification), and cosmopolitanism (pseudoscience), as pretenses in vain attempts to suggest that our means of group competition should be adopted as the universal standard, rater than that the universal standard is voluntary exchange, and that we remain, as always, competitors in commerce rather than competitors in religion and war.”–

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-06 06:46:00 UTC

  • APRIORISM VS CONSISTENT, CORRESPONDENT, AND EXISTENTIAL –“It is not that we can

    APRIORISM VS CONSISTENT, CORRESPONDENT, AND EXISTENTIAL

    –“It is not that we cannot USE aprioristically deduced concepts. It’s that they are not deductive certainties”–

    Michael Phillip:

    Interesting. This sounds like something Einstein said a while back about concepts

    Curt Doolittle:

    Yes, it was his fundamental insight: he had to eliminate the frame.

    And it is why Bridgman was adamant that physics must remain experimental and science operational.

    ALSO

    In Math it is why Brouwer (and Poincare) and Bishop have been adamant about constructivism and intuitionism in mathematics.

    ALSO

    In Economics, it’s what Mises was trying but failed to do with praxeology – he was too buried in german and jewish rationalism. He confused truth and morality – which is a very german thing to do.

    ALSO

    And it is close to what popper (inarticulately) argues

    And so it’s what I’m trying to find a way to articulate: that since we think in terms of meaning and with words, we can use very loose associations to investigate phenomenon in any discipline.

    ***However, once we develop a theory we must demonstrate that it is internally consistent (our words or symbols are reasonably free of error), externally correspondent (testable in reality), and operationally possible (existentially possible).***

    Even then we are not sure it cannot be falsified – only that we testify that it is internally consistent, externally correspondent, and existentially possible.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-04 10:58:00 UTC

  • We Discovered Truth Telling

    [W]hile Propertarianism does provide the missing logic of cooperation that Mises promised us, and that the prohibition of free riding is the single cooperative problem to be overcome, that the central proposition of Propertarianism is the western struggle to testify truthfully to one’s jury, and that trust is the result of that struggle, and economic velocity the result of that trust. And that economic velocity is the reason for both phases of the west’s rapid advancement: the classical and modern worlds that both times have dragged man out of ignorance, and in our most recent case, dragged him out of poverty.

    So if I want something to be learned, it is that: we discovered truth telling.

  • We Discovered Truth Telling

    [W]hile Propertarianism does provide the missing logic of cooperation that Mises promised us, and that the prohibition of free riding is the single cooperative problem to be overcome, that the central proposition of Propertarianism is the western struggle to testify truthfully to one’s jury, and that trust is the result of that struggle, and economic velocity the result of that trust. And that economic velocity is the reason for both phases of the west’s rapid advancement: the classical and modern worlds that both times have dragged man out of ignorance, and in our most recent case, dragged him out of poverty.

    So if I want something to be learned, it is that: we discovered truth telling.

  • So is he right? is that what we are searching for? not philosophy as a disciplin

    So is he right? is that what we are searching for? not philosophy as a discipline, but a philosophical psychology? Are science, philosophy, truth telling, and psychology simply obvious if they are in fact the same discipline approached in different languages, just as we chose religion, stargazing, and magic before we had developed science?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-04 06:18:00 UTC

  • WE DISCOVERED TRUTH TELLING I think that while Propertarianism does provide the

    WE DISCOVERED TRUTH TELLING

    I think that while Propertarianism does provide the missing logic of cooperation that Mises promised us, and that the prohibition of free riding is the single cooperative problem to be overcome, that the central proposition of Propertarianism is the western struggle to testify truthfully to one’s jury, and that trust is the result of that struggle, and economic velocity the result of that trust. And that economic velocity is the reason for both phases of the west’s rapid advancement: the classical and modern worlds that both times have dragged man out of ignorance, and in our most recent case, dragged him out of poverty.

    So if I want something to be learned, it is that: we discovered truth telling.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-03 14:19:00 UTC

  • It is important to make women happy out of compassion: they struggle with mainta

    It is important to make women happy out of compassion: they struggle with maintaining rationality in the face of even the most trivial of uncomfortable truths. But that is different from taking them seriously. Rarely should a man take a woman seriously – they live in a world of chaos.

    ;).

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-01 07:27:00 UTC

  • MEANING AND RATIONALISM : THE TOOLS OF LYING

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc073RIC7_MLANGUAGE MEANING AND RATIONALISM : THE TOOLS OF LYING

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 04:04:00 UTC

  • MEANING AND RATIONALISM: THE TOOLS OF LYING

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSHCdalj3FoLANGUAGE, MEANING AND RATIONALISM: THE TOOLS OF LYING

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 04:02:00 UTC