(worth repeating)
—“We have limited cognitive and perceptive abilities, and require this multitude of tools to testify that we in fact are conveying OBSERVATIONS rather than IMAGINATIONS. “—
The purpose of that method we call ‘the scientific method’ is ethical: to ensure that we are testifying to observation rather than imagination.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-17 20:11:00 UTC
THE BEAUTY OF TRUTH: TRUST AND ALL THAT COMES FROM IT
Truth is such a beautiful thing. Not in the holier than thou, messianic, and judgemental sense. But in the wonder that results from our ability to rely upon it and trust our fellows. Only truth-tellers will invent science, medicine and freedom.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-17 20:02:00 UTC
“Knowledge” like “red” is the name of an experience, not an action, or an object. Recorded knowledge, or more accurately instructions for the recreation of knowledge, is different from the experience of knowledge.
So while it is verbally convenient to refer to mebers of a category with the same term, one cannot then treat all members of a category as identical.
Logic without operational defunitions is an endlessly meaningless word game.
Parlor game.
Nonsense.
That said, yes it is possible to record operations necesssry to reconstruct the experience we refer to as knowledge.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-15 04:16:00 UTC
( omg, you would not believe what I figured out this morning. wow. truth rocks.)
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-15 02:36:00 UTC
TRUTH AS NORMATIVE CAPITAL – CULTURAL DIFFERENCES
Truth necessary for correspondence (Europe) (universal high trust) (commitment)
Truth necessary for fidelity (Judaism) (ingroup high – outgroup low) (pragmatic)
Truth necessary for conformity (China) (low trust) (avoidance)
Truth as unhelpful (everywhere else) (no trust) (ignorance)
FIVE BOOKS
Gotta read five books:
1) Keegan’s A History Of Warfare
2) Armstrong’s A History Of God
3) Mallory’s In Search of Indo-Europeans
4) Fukuyama’s Origins of Political Order
5) Fukuyama’s Trust.
Most people won’t understand the importance of the History of God (cross cultural study of the development of gods) but it’s just as important as Keegan’s history of warfare
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-15 01:40:00 UTC
“The way you fight is the way you see the truth”
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 12:56:00 UTC
WORK IN PROGRESS
Operationalism (Action – or whatever I must end up calling it).
Testimony (Truth) (“I can demonstrate the ethical right to make this claim”)
– Proof (causality) Testimony to proof of operation (existence and observability).
– Proof (internal consistency ) Testimony to consistency
– Proof (external correspondence) Testimony to correspondence and falsification.
– Proof (perfect parsimony) Testimony to perfect parsimony at given precision.
Propertarianism (Moral Realism)
— man, cooperation, morality, property
Applications to Common Problems (Propertarianism)
Sociology (the behavior of individuals in groups)
Post Monopoly (Democratic) Political Institutions.
– Voluntary membership, Reciprocal Insurance, Right of Secession
– Militia, Regiments, Elected Generals, Private Weapons Production, Nuclear Arms
– Constitution, Property, Common Law, Judges, Courts, (Academy/Association), Insurers. (Anarchic Government)
– Contractual Production of Necessary Commons.
—- Infrastructure
– Contractual Production of Preferential Commons.
—- Insurance
– Contractual Production of Luxury Commons
—- Arts and Monuments
Aristocratic Egalitarianism (reciprocal insurance of property rights)
🙂
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 05:39:00 UTC
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/?q=node%2F773Damn Sean Gabb , if you took the moral loading out of this and put it into NPOV, it’d be even better. I’m going to borrow huge chunks of it (citation of course), but it’s just about right. Right voice and everything.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-13 08:29:00 UTC
My Glossary alone is over 100 pages. So I will have to label necessary terms. And see what can be cut. But not much can be. Why? Because of you cleanse terms of the various fallacies endemic to democracy and the legitimacy of the state, as well as various philosophical fallacies, then the set of terms that does not need restatement is small.
Our language is polluted.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-12 08:00:00 UTC
Truth and Adherence to Rules are two different things. (submission) Truth and Fidelity to Contract are two different things. Truth and Duty are two different things. Truth and Knowledge are two different things. Truth as Adherence – Familialism (most of the world) Truth as Fidelity – Tribalism (judaism) Truth as Duty – Nationalism (germans) Truth as Science – Universalism. (english) [T]hat members of a community follow rules and conventions with one another, does not require whatsoever that they tell the truth to one another. That members of a community fulfill promises or contracts with one another, does not require whatsoever that they tell the truth to one another. Another community may both fulfill it’s promises, its contracts, and the commitment to tell the truth at all times regardless of cost. The principle of truth to to an Adherence community consists of order. The principle of ‘truth’ to a contract community consists of fidelity. The principle of truth to a truth-telling community consists of ***SCIENCE***. If you grasp the profundity of this statement you will understand why some cultures produce science, and some produce trade, and some produce tyranny. Some create science. And some create pseudoscience. And some create only order. Some create science, innovation, trade and trust. Others create only trade, and others create only utilitarian applications of tools. Small things in large numbers have vast consequences. When we use ‘functions” such as the verb to be, or the word ‘truth’ we do not really understand their construction, just that they are shorthand approximations that tend to work. We have just knowledge of use, not knowledge of construction. But the word ‘true’ means very different things in different places: science, fidelity, and adherence. And the consequences are astounding. Truth is a performative declaration. Truth claims then, to different groups, state either epistemology, fidelity, or adherence. I have solved the problem you know. It’s ethics. —- [C]omments From: Ayelam Valentine Agaliba:
The principle of truth to to an Adherence community consists of order. The principle of ‘truth’ to a contract community consists of fidelity. The principle of truth to a truth-telling community consists of ***SCIENCE***
This is a most penetrating line. It has vast political implications. Do you know what? I believe that you can better Samuel Huntington. Replace his Hegelianism with your program and what you have is a far more rigorous/descriptive explanation. From: Curt Doolittle
(^^^Thank you for all the help you have been to me. Love you man.)
From: Frank Lovell I’d add or say:
Where there are NO humans, truth rules; where there ARE humans, ethics rules, without which truth and knowledge of truth matter not.