A world without truth is only a postmodern dream until the aristocracy (market meritocracy) is eradicated and we are once again reduced to authoritarian monopoly, and the poverty that ensues. And power is held by people who exploit the poor, rather than those who eliminate poverty but cannot eliminate voluntary reproduction beyond one’s means.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-23 10:59:00 UTC
Speech consists of measurements. Those measurements are either identical in correspondence, marginal, adequate, inadequate, biased, or deceptive.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-23 10:12:00 UTC
I will inevitably make you disagree with me for the simple reason that nearly all of us are invested in some excuse or other that violates natural law. You will not take my advice and accept that the problem is the man in the mirror, but instead, you will blame me or my work or my reasoning, or my incentives, just like you blame others for the status quo, rather than the man in the mirror. It is extremely difficult to possess sufficient agency such that we ritualize intellectual honesty. While almost all of us are capable of it, few of us train for it, and fewer of us develop it in the course of life, and even fewer of us are born with the disposition. Truth knows no exception.
I will inevitably make you disagree with me for the simple reason that nearly all of us are invested in some excuse or other that violates natural law. You will not take my advice and accept that the problem is the man in the mirror, but instead, you will blame me or my work or my reasoning, or my incentives, just like you blame others for the status quo, rather than the man in the mirror. It is extremely difficult to possess sufficient agency such that we ritualize intellectual honesty. While almost all of us are capable of it, few of us train for it, and fewer of us develop it in the course of life, and even fewer of us are born with the disposition. Truth knows no exception.
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
YOU WILL EVENTUALLY DISAGREE WITH ME
I will inevitably make you disagree with me for the simple reason that nearly all of us are invested in some excuse or other that violates natural law.
You will not take my advice and accept that the problem is the man in the mirror, but instead, you will blame me or my work or my reasoning, or my incentives, just like you blame others for the status quo, rather than the man in the mirror.
It is extremely difficult to possess sufficient agency such that we ritualize intellectual honesty. While almost all of us are capable of it, few of us train for it, and fewer of us develop it in the course of life, and even fewer of us are born with the disposition.
Truth knows no exception.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-21 16:03:34 UTC
YOU WILL EVENTUALLY DISAGREE WITH ME
I will inevitably make you disagree with me for the simple reason that nearly all of us are invested in some excuse or other that violates natural law.
You will not take my advice and accept that the problem is the man in the mirror, but instead, you will blame me or my work or my reasoning, or my incentives, just like you blame others for the status quo, rather than the man in the mirror.
It is extremely difficult to possess sufficient agency such that we ritualize intellectual honesty. While almost all of us are capable of it, few of us train for it, and fewer of us develop it in the course of life, and even fewer of us are born with the disposition.
Truth knows no exception.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-21 12:03:00 UTC
TABLE This:………………………………………..Degrades to: (Physical)…..Science………………….Magic (Verbal)……..Testimony(law)………..Sophism (Emotional)..Experience . ……………Supernaturalism HIERARCHY – Law (Science/Anglo Analytic) – Phenomenalism (Literary/Continental) – Sophism (Verbalism/Deception) – Theology (Mythology) – Occult (Dreams)
TABLE This:………………………………………..Degrades to: (Physical)…..Science………………….Magic (Verbal)……..Testimony(law)………..Sophism (Emotional)..Experience . ……………Supernaturalism HIERARCHY – Law (Science/Anglo Analytic) – Phenomenalism (Literary/Continental) – Sophism (Verbalism/Deception) – Theology (Mythology) – Occult (Dreams)
—“When we hear the sophists claim that law is a social construct, they should be saying that legislation is a social construct?”— Steven Jackson Yes. Natural Law (Reciprocity). Law (judicial findings of irreciprocity), Legislation( Commands of Representatives given force of law), Regulation ( Commands of Bureaucracy), Discretion (Commands of Individuals). —“Natural law is not a construct but a reality that adapts to social conditions?”— Steven Jackson Natural law was ‘discovered’ as the universal method of decidability independent of individual and group differences in judgements, and from which there is no incentive for retaliation. Natural law (reciprocity) is the only condition under which both (a) cooperation is the necessary means of survival, reproduction, and flourishing, and (b) individuals cannot prey upon one another, and (c) it is in the self interest of the strong (and sovereign) to adhere to instead of predation, parasitism, and coercion.
—“When we hear the sophists claim that law is a social construct, they should be saying that legislation is a social construct?”— Steven Jackson Yes. Natural Law (Reciprocity). Law (judicial findings of irreciprocity), Legislation( Commands of Representatives given force of law), Regulation ( Commands of Bureaucracy), Discretion (Commands of Individuals). —“Natural law is not a construct but a reality that adapts to social conditions?”— Steven Jackson Natural law was ‘discovered’ as the universal method of decidability independent of individual and group differences in judgements, and from which there is no incentive for retaliation. Natural law (reciprocity) is the only condition under which both (a) cooperation is the necessary means of survival, reproduction, and flourishing, and (b) individuals cannot prey upon one another, and (c) it is in the self interest of the strong (and sovereign) to adhere to instead of predation, parasitism, and coercion.