Logics are deflationary grammars so that we can test ourselves. They are very limited languages with very strict grammars and semantics. They serve as means of falsification. Stories allow us to search for opportunities. Via-positiva stories (meaning) vs via-negativa logics (falsification) and the truth is what survives the competition.
Theme: Truth
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The Number of Worthless Opinions Has No Bearing
I mean, I don’t put much weight behind the opinions of riders of the intellectual short bus. Opinions don’t matter. Arguments do. And in argument, moralistic, rationalistic, and pseudoscientific don’t matter. Either a critic can make a testimonial (ratio-operational-scientific) argument or one can’t. Most likely a critic can’t make even a trivial one. That’s before we even get to whether he can make one that’s meaningful. We are creatures of habits, and our arguments consist largely of a string of habits. And our impression or pretense of understanding is a false reward to keep us thinking and acting under an illusion of competence despite the evidence to the contrary. There are many dehmanizing truths in intellectual history and the degree to which few humans possess material (marginally different) agency is terrifyingly small. We are well trained apes and while sentience and consciousness exist in almost all of us, agency is still a rarity.
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The Number of Worthless Opinions Has No Bearing
I mean, I don’t put much weight behind the opinions of riders of the intellectual short bus. Opinions don’t matter. Arguments do. And in argument, moralistic, rationalistic, and pseudoscientific don’t matter. Either a critic can make a testimonial (ratio-operational-scientific) argument or one can’t. Most likely a critic can’t make even a trivial one. That’s before we even get to whether he can make one that’s meaningful. We are creatures of habits, and our arguments consist largely of a string of habits. And our impression or pretense of understanding is a false reward to keep us thinking and acting under an illusion of competence despite the evidence to the contrary. There are many dehmanizing truths in intellectual history and the degree to which few humans possess material (marginally different) agency is terrifyingly small. We are well trained apes and while sentience and consciousness exist in almost all of us, agency is still a rarity.
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The Poverty of Evolas Sophisms and Moralisms
Trying to find Evola quotes that contain any material content is searching for needles in haystacks. I can find some. But not many. Why? He cannot define the words he uses. So he is relying upon suggestion and demand for substitution by the reader. The reader, providing that substitution, is therefore is firmly convinced that Evola evokes the reader’s agreement, when instead, Evola evokes only the act of agreement with one’s self, and the illusion that Evola shares that sentiment.
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The Poverty of Evolas Sophisms and Moralisms
Trying to find Evola quotes that contain any material content is searching for needles in haystacks. I can find some. But not many. Why? He cannot define the words he uses. So he is relying upon suggestion and demand for substitution by the reader. The reader, providing that substitution, is therefore is firmly convinced that Evola evokes the reader’s agreement, when instead, Evola evokes only the act of agreement with one’s self, and the illusion that Evola shares that sentiment.
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Imprecision, suggestion, and demand for substitution create the impression of co
Imprecision, suggestion, and demand for substitution create the impression of consensus where there is none. If you can’t state something operationally so that it is testable, then you either don’t know what you’re talking about or are engaged in abrahamic sophisms.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-17 12:34:13 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1008326950304342017
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Imprecision, suggestion, and demand for substitution create the impression of co
Imprecision, suggestion, and demand for substitution create the impression of consensus where there is none. If you can’t state something operationally so that it is testable, then you either don’t know what you’re talking about or are engaged in abrahamic sophisms.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-17 08:34:00 UTC
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THE NUMBER OF WORTHLESS OPINIONS HAS NO BEARING I mean, I don’t put much weight
THE NUMBER OF WORTHLESS OPINIONS HAS NO BEARING
I mean, I don’t put much weight behind the opinions of riders of the intellectual short bus. Opinions don’t matter. Arguments do. And in argument, moralistic, rationalistic, and pseudoscientific don’t matter. Either a critic can make a testimonial (ratio-operational-scientific) argument or one can’t. Most likely a critic can’t make even a trivial one. That’s before we even get to whether he can make one that’s meaningful.
We are creatures of habits, and our arguments consist largely of a string of habits. And our impression or pretense of understanding is a false reward to keep us thinking and acting under an illusion of competence despite the evidence to the contrary.
There are many dehmanizing truths in intellectual history and the degree to which few humans possess material (marginally different) agency is terrifyingly small.
We are well trained apes and while sentience and consciousness exist in almost all of us, agency is still a rarity.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-17 08:08:00 UTC
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Reminder of What I Do Here
REMINDER OF WHAT I DO HERE “Let a thousand nations bloom” I don’t do racism. Every group can transcend, by sovereignty, reciprocity, truth, duty, and markets in everything. The net effect must always produce incrementally eugenic populations, that continuously limit the reproduction of the lower classes, allowing the working, middle and upper classes to gradually leave behind the drag of the underclasses, and to continuously compete with the red queen, who requires progress in man as it does in his knowledge and technology. Nationalism merely allows the self interested production of those commons necessary for the distribution of abilities in the group, and prohibits the predation upon other groups by internalizing the costs and benefits of eugenic civilization, and ameliorating differences between nations by trade policy. Every alternative is nothing but theft, parasitism, and predation. Let a thousand nations bloom.
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Reminder of What I Do Here
REMINDER OF WHAT I DO HERE “Let a thousand nations bloom” I don’t do racism. Every group can transcend, by sovereignty, reciprocity, truth, duty, and markets in everything. The net effect must always produce incrementally eugenic populations, that continuously limit the reproduction of the lower classes, allowing the working, middle and upper classes to gradually leave behind the drag of the underclasses, and to continuously compete with the red queen, who requires progress in man as it does in his knowledge and technology. Nationalism merely allows the self interested production of those commons necessary for the distribution of abilities in the group, and prohibits the predation upon other groups by internalizing the costs and benefits of eugenic civilization, and ameliorating differences between nations by trade policy. Every alternative is nothing but theft, parasitism, and predation. Let a thousand nations bloom.