Curt Doolittle

Theme: Truth

  • How Can One Determine When Subjective Reasoning Might Be Preferable To Objective Reason?

    This question is not necessarily coherent, since subjective reason is a non-sequitur. If you mean, “When is intuition more useful than reason?” then that is a question currently addressed by Kahneman and Haidt.  Intuition is very powerful, but not logical or observable.  Reason is very weak, but observable.  And they inform one another.  However, any concept of truth is determined by reason.  Any concept of preference by intuition. And we lie to ourselves whenever possible in an effort to conflate the two.

    https://www.quora.com/How-can-one-determine-when-subjective-reasoning-might-be-preferable-to-objective-reason

  • What Are The Best “what Comes After Postmodernism” Essays?

    Restoration of Modernism, and extension of Modernism to include Operationalism, Intuitionism, Instrumentalism, and Performative (or Testimonial) Truth.  Repudiation of Platonism, Pseudoscience, Verbalism, and Social Construction. Repudiation of Universalism. Repudiation of Democracy. Return to Nationalism. 

    Its already happening.

    https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-what-comes-after-postmodernism-essays

  • How Can One Determine When Subjective Reasoning Might Be Preferable To Objective Reason?

    This question is not necessarily coherent, since subjective reason is a non-sequitur. If you mean, “When is intuition more useful than reason?” then that is a question currently addressed by Kahneman and Haidt.  Intuition is very powerful, but not logical or observable.  Reason is very weak, but observable.  And they inform one another.  However, any concept of truth is determined by reason.  Any concept of preference by intuition. And we lie to ourselves whenever possible in an effort to conflate the two.

    https://www.quora.com/How-can-one-determine-when-subjective-reasoning-might-be-preferable-to-objective-reason

  • THE RABBIT HOLE Its far more profound than taking the red pill. I keep thinking

    THE RABBIT HOLE

    Its far more profound than taking the red pill.

    I keep thinking that I have found the bottom of the rabbit hole, but as soon as I get there, I see that it goes deeper.

    Is it true that the purpose of literature is to obtain power, and the purpose of language is to obtain power, and the means by which we obtain power is to lie by loading framing and overloading?

    Is all our verbalism merely deception to cover our acquisitiveness?

    Is truth-telling the only possible means of both constructing the commons AND resisting the thieves?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-10 05:03:00 UTC

  • THE SELLING OF LIES. For westerners, True and False, and Good and Bad, were syno

    THE SELLING OF LIES.

    For westerners, True and False, and Good and Bad, were synonyms. The socialists convinced us, through repetition and bribery, that good and bad no longer corresponded to True and False.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-10 04:26:00 UTC

  • CAN THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE PEOPLE WHO DEVELOPED SCIENCE HAVE A DANGEROUS GAP? (Ye

    CAN THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE PEOPLE WHO DEVELOPED SCIENCE HAVE A DANGEROUS GAP? (Yes)

    If you had told me that western philosophy contained such a catastrophic hole that we could be nearly destroyed by ideas even worse than monotheism, I would have told you to write science fiction novellas.

    It turns out it’s true.

    We treat truth and universalism as normal. But when our knowledge exceeded human scale, we adopted platonic truth, and at the very same time, the continentals and cosmopolitans swamped us with pseudoscience.

    The european new right is wrong. We don’t need a religion. We don’t need to return to religion.

    We just need to speak the truth.

    And speaking the truth, it turns out, isn’t a philosophical proposition that is open to interpretation. You can either give an operational description or you can’t.

    The truth is, that we’ve been poisoned as seriously as we were when Justinian closed the greek schools, and imposed middle eastern mysticism upon us.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-07 09:40:00 UTC

  • How Do Scientists And Inventors Benefit From Subjectivity And Intuition?

    NOT BENEFIT, BUT DEPEND

    Scientific investigation is not logical but intuitive, because it is conducted by free association.  Because formal logic has attracted unmerited attention in the 20th century, the importance of the scientist in the ‘decidability’ (which is the correct term, believe it or not) between possible avenues of exploration has been lost.  There is no such possible logical means of deciding how to investigate – other than perhaps the relationship between cost and content falsified.  But even this proposition is impossible to decide logically, since the domain of possible solutions is limited only by the general knowledge of the scientist and his or her capacity for free association (identification of possible patterns – which we tend to reduce to IQ.)

    In other words, it’s is not that they benefit from it, it is that they DEPEND UPON IT.

    https://www.quora.com/How-do-scientists-and-inventors-benefit-from-subjectivity-and-intuition

  • How Do Scientists And Inventors Benefit From Subjectivity And Intuition?

    NOT BENEFIT, BUT DEPEND

    Scientific investigation is not logical but intuitive, because it is conducted by free association.  Because formal logic has attracted unmerited attention in the 20th century, the importance of the scientist in the ‘decidability’ (which is the correct term, believe it or not) between possible avenues of exploration has been lost.  There is no such possible logical means of deciding how to investigate – other than perhaps the relationship between cost and content falsified.  But even this proposition is impossible to decide logically, since the domain of possible solutions is limited only by the general knowledge of the scientist and his or her capacity for free association (identification of possible patterns – which we tend to reduce to IQ.)

    In other words, it’s is not that they benefit from it, it is that they DEPEND UPON IT.

    https://www.quora.com/How-do-scientists-and-inventors-benefit-from-subjectivity-and-intuition

  • A logical statement, in formal language statement is not semantically bound (cor

    A logical statement, in formal language statement is not semantically bound (correspondent with reality); it is an axiomatic argument and is merely internally consistent. The only information present is that stated in the axioms.

    A statement in informal language *is* semantically bound (correspondent with reality). There is more information present in informal languages than in formal languages.

    A statement in normative ‘natural’ language is not logically bound, or semantically bound, but merely a matter of useful communication – short hand. There is information outside of the statements necessary to interpret them.

    A statement in colloquial language consists of a mixture of natural and analogical symbols neither logically, correspondently, nor normatively bound. There is both information and structure outside of the statements and structure necessary to interpret them.

    Operational language is an informal language (correspondent with reality) bound not internally, but by existence. It is a higher standard than natural langauge.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-05 11:58:00 UTC

  • THE SOCIALIST DESTRUCTION OF TRUTH The first casualty was Rhetoric. The second D

    THE SOCIALIST DESTRUCTION OF TRUTH

    The first casualty was Rhetoric.

    The second Darwin.

    The third History.

    The fourth Science.

    That was how they attacked truth.

    The ten planks were not all they did.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-05 03:49:00 UTC