Which is First?

I wasn’t going to respond (to Arminius) anymore, but this trolling of his kind of forces my hand:

I promptly acknowledge that Nietzsche was partly wrong. He wasn’t wrong about this issue, though (possibly about some details regarding it, but not about the fundamentals).

So? That only means modernity will be over–and it’s always been highly questionable whether modernity be a good thing.

Calling logicians and mathematicians “spiritual” scientists is pathetic, especially coming from a German(-speaker).

Nietzsche was of course the father of postmodernism (which doesn’t mean he was himself a postmodernist, even as he wasn’t himself an existentialist. Nietzsche overcame postmodernism and existentialism before those terms were coined, but he was misunderstood–especially by Heidegger).

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The reason that what I said is nonsense just because it’s possible to think deeper, to elaborate on it, is that I haven’t thought deeper or elaborated on it? That makes no logical sense, buddy.

And how do you know I haven’t thought deeper on it, or elaborated on it elsewhere?

Premiss 1: “If I behave like this, that and that will probably happen.”
Premiss 2: “I do not want that and that to happen.”
Conclusion: “I will not behave like this.”

Makes sense. But then you should also believe that dogs think logically when they are conditioned (the so-called “Pavlov response”)…

By the way, premiss 1 rests on what may be a great stupidity:

“The question ‘why’ is always a question after the causa finalis [final cause], after the ‘what for?’ We have no ‘sense for the causa efficiens [efficient cause]’: here Hume was right; habit (but not only that of the individual!) makes us expect that a certain often-observed occurrence will follow another: nothing more! That which gives the extraordinary firmness to our belief in causality is not the great habit of seeing one occurrence following another but our inability to interpret events otherwise than as events caused by intentions. It is belief in the living and thinking as the only effective force–in will, in intention–it is the belief that every event is a deed, that every deed presupposes a doer, it is belief in the ‘subject.’ Is this belief in the concept of subject and attribute not a great stupidity?” (Nietzsche, Will to Power 550, Kaufmann trans.)

Habit, by the way, falls squarely in the domain of ethics. “Habit” is after all a synonym of “custom”, and the morality of custom (Sittlichkeit der Sitte) is the oldest morality.

“The one intelligible theory of the universe is that of objective idealism, that matter is effete mind, inveterate habits becoming physical laws.” (Charles Sanders Peirce, “The Architecture of Theories”.)

I’m saying it now. “Unpleasant” is an aesthetic judgment.

“In its more technically epistemological perspective, [aesthetics] is defined as the study of subjective and sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics)

“[Axiology] is either the collective term for ethics and aesthetics–philosophical fields that depend crucially on notions of worth–or the foundation for these fields, and thus similar to value theory and meta-ethics.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiology)

That answers my first question, but not my second.

You were willing to read that passage, but are unwilling to talk about it?

Yeah, the word I was looking for was “explored”, not “investigated”. And I should probably have written “[whack]” instead of “[smack]”. Or “‘because I say so!’”

The stick is still the “trump card” of the Indian warrior caste. It’s like magic!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgDGmYdhZvU[/youtube] “India Untouched”, 45:43 f.

Logically, logic cannot be taught by using logic… at least not only; at least not the fundamentals.

And how do we learn language? Our first words–“mama”, “papa” and the like–are sounds we utter spontaneously, without referring to anything; it’s only because our parents tend to use them to refer to themselves that they come to refer to anything. Later, our parents/guardians will point to things while saying words, and we’re encouraged to imitate those sounds (not typically with a stick, by the way, but with a carrot: the joy our parents express at us when we get it right, or even when we get it only partially right–wrong in a funny way).

Okay man, whatever you say.

I wasn’t referring to history “proper”, but to philosophy of history–this is ILovePhilosophy, after all. Strauss immediately continues:

“In a word, the difficulty indicated compels Heidegger to elaborate, sketch or suggest what in the case of any other man would be called his philosophy of history.”

Nietzsche was not Heidegger, and his philosophy should indeed be called a philosophy of history:

“In contradiction to Pascal, whom he unwaveringly read and loved, Nietzsche equates the God of the philosophers with the God of the Christian faith, because theology and the Church have fused Christian faith and metaphysics into an undissolvable unity since Clement of Alexandria at the latest. With the death of God and the end of metaphysics, however, very much more begins to totter than one should think on superficial consideration. Nietzsche teaches–and in this he is a student of Hegel’s–that the whole of European culture, its religion, but also its morality and, last but not least, European science rest on the foundation of that metaphysics from which they have sprung. If God is dead, a priori knowledge loses its basis and the categories lose their validity. Logic is then no longer true but a system for the production of fictions, and all the principles of morality are put into question and shaken, indeed, turned over into their opposite. Nietzsche is far removed from wanting to bring about this process of the great catastrophe of European culture with his philosophy. Already in ‘Things Human, All Too Human’ does he refer to his philosophy as ‘historical philosophy’. History is the essential content of his philosophy, and therefore he can characterize his prediction of European nihilism and its terrible consequences by the paradoxical concept of a historiography that does not recount the past, but anticipates the future.” (Georg Picht, Nietzsche, “By way of an introduction: the philosopher as (at)tempter”, my translation.)

“Like Heidegger, I too depart from a fundamental thesis […, namely] that, through Nietzsche, history has become the sole content of philosophy.” (op.cit., page 15.)

He’s not just important for the history of philosophy, but also and especially for the present and future of philosophy. That is, not just for philosophy’s–and mankind’s–past history, but also for their present and future history.

“Whereas in Kant the apriority of reason is condition of the possibility of designing, through the change carried out by Nietzsche the design becomes the condition of the possibility of reason. The model from which the essence of the design can be read, however, is still the experiment. Hence philosophy as a whole must now emerge as an attempt, for the attempt is the design of the open horizons for the future forms of thinking and acting. The attempt is the design of the possibilities of the future history of mankind. […]
If the attempt is understood as the design of the future possibilities of historic existence [Dasein–Picht had just mentioned Heidegger], the experiment carried out here can no longer be interpreted as if the experimenter stood toward the experiment he conducts as an impartial observer. In this design he designs his own possibility. The carrying-out of his own life [or living–Leben] is the attempt. […]
This Erkenntnis)] is the total sublation [Aufhebung] of the traditional distinction between theory and practice. Since Nietzsche, every thinking is reactionary which does not venture to accomplish the entire life of him who thinks as an experiment of the knower, as a designing [Entwerfen, lit. “unthrowing oneself”] into the future possibilities of human history.” (Picht, Nietzsche, page 72.)

No, it means Value Ontology.
It’ll be a bit tricky to discern proper sources from fake ones - all the trolls on these boards have attached themselves to VO and are incessantly working to invent their own meanings.

For a lot of them it is frustrating that a great degree of capacity for protracted reasoning is required, hence they call it “vanity”, after the Vanir - he highest Nordic Gods, and “Occultism” in the sense that it is hidden to most, since it involves reason.

Anyway, just playing.
VO gets a lot of attention, mostly it is people who are frustrated that its not as simple as they would like life to be, but sometimes someone capable of handling it will turn up. Were at about 8/10 people now that have cultivated methods with it.

Sauwelios - a great bear can be moved my a swarm of mosquitos -
I should thank the mosquitos. That is a beautiful post.

There is no chance that the troll you responded to will be able to read it, and so much the better - our writing is here for the occasional thinker that stumbles on it. We may have more friends than Nietzsche did, but the vast majority of people still absolutely hate the fact that their cranium contains so inconveniently much brain matter. They mostly use that matter to have it obstruct its own function - another thing explained by VO; A drab, dumb person can simply not value intelligence.

N’s ideas about the ER as a selective mechanism, a fitness determinator, apply to VO as well, it has been apparent since 2011 - all the most ostensibly unwholesome types rush on stage to do their little desecration dance with it, unwittingly making the most preposterous and unsalvageable messes of themselves - where the most ostensibly intelligent types have all adopted it in one way or another.
Some of the latter have been producing their own parallel theories, none of which however is as dynamic as VO - and reality.

I dont counteract all the attempts at obscuring the doctrine for simple reasons of utility. It will be beneficial for me in the long run if there are a lot of inferior versions of the theory around; the actual logic will cut through them all like a hot knife through butter. This is why I expect of people that want to actually learn the logic to seek it out on their own strength. It is in terms of this strength that they will learn the meaning. I killed intellectual neutrality.

Actually, it is merely that you have a perverted sense of “spiritual” … pathetically un-philosophical.

Oh gyahd … give it a break. “Postmodern” refers to after 1980. Nietzsche died 3-4 generations before then, even before actual modernism (circa 1900).

What are we going to do with this obscene degree of ignorance?
Lets just let these guys troll on a bit, Sauwelios. Dit is echt te dom om los te lopen.

Ignorance of what exactly, or are you just too damn drugged up to know what you are saying (again)?

Ignorance of all you mentioned. Its too much, Im serious.
I don’t know who is telling you stories about drugs, I assume you’re on KTS now. That s low even for you.

New people:

So what you will get now, if they don’t scare off, is the trolls throwing some insults at the real posters and doing their best to obscure the fact that they are never addressing any issues, and never using a logical argument.

Back to topic though.

Logic requires a consistency of discernment and type of decisions.
Logic can not provide this consistency.

It is not necessarily logical that one would want to use logic, for one.
It would be logical if it were sure to lead to the sort of values that one values.

This is a matter of ethics.

Why use logic? Because of certain values. (terrain: ethics)
How use logic? By upholding a certain standard. (terrain: ethics)

Just more of your lies and unsubstantiated BS. How pathetic can you get.

Logic IS “consistency”. That is all that “logic” means - the “logged”, “docked”, unchanging", “consistent”.

And without consistency in thought, no one can even know what ethics" means. much less study it.

Because ones capacity for both axioms and consistency in logical argument relies on ones control of ethics (integrity, etc) we can see that those who do not understand ethics to be prior to logic are entirely incapable of addressing the logical arguments that those that do present them with; that is to day, those that argue for logic to be prior aren’t actually arguing at all, but writing strings of unrelated statements.

No. Because “ethics” does NOT mean “self-control”, “discipline”, “having standards”, or even “integrity”.

All of those things are your particular bias concerning what YOU believe GOOD ethics are. But that is only YOUR version, opinion, preference. It has nothing to do with what ETHICS actually entails.

It is an utter disgrace that at best 10 percent od Sauwelios writing is being quoted so as to be directly responded to by his challengers - a disgrace for them of course - it is a sign that 90 percent of his responses are too difficult for them to engage.
Parallel to this we have the 90 percent of his challengers posts that consist of nagging and trying to find ways to prickle, to win the emotional battle, to exasperate the thinker.

The opposition in 2001 was stronger though. Well, back then we were the opposition.

All these posts of mine here are largely ethics. Exhibition of standard vs standard - my ethics versus those of the ones that can not attain to logic;
self-assertion is required to hold a position. A position is necessary for positivism. Positivism is the paradigm of logic.

Oh, try posting without looking into the mirror. Your effort to create heroes, especially of yourself, is kind of pathetic.

To say that 1+1=2, we need to lay a lot of groundwork.
This groundwork is the formulation of standards, which is always done with non-abstracts; real consistencies.
This can be a wide range of things, from a physical object always falls with the same acceleration, or a symbol that is always drawn the same, etc.

“A”=“A” is an ethics. It may be or seem self-evident, but that doesn’t make it logical.
Logic uses ethical agreements like this in combination with each other.

Logic can be practiced by using this law of identity (ethics) in combination with the decision to try to be able to work with physical quantities of qualities that approximate perfectly equal amounts of the same stuff - physics.

Physics is the bringing about of logical strings of controlled events by strictly upholding several ethics at once, so that the hypothetical event A accurately describes a real event A’, and can be related to hypothetical and real events B and B’.

Well that was informative.

James, you give such. perfect demonstration.
Your lack of ethics, consistency, prevents you from doing the logical thing and abiding by the real-world (empirical, actual) meaning of the term.

It means exactly what I said it means.

Ethics is that which pertains to standards.
An ethos is a standard or set of standards.
A standard is a consistency, a character, a nature.

Yes, it is “AN” ethic. It is one ethic recommended so as to maintain sanity and coherence in society. And what is it’s name? - LOGIC.

Logic is ONE Ethic that is recommended, once a society actually forms in order to have a need for ethics.

You are the definition of it. How many times have you blatantly lied about ME? - TOO Many.

No, it is a definition.
That definition, the law of identity, is one of the requirements of logic. Another requirement is that there is something besides “A”. And there are a bunch of others, some of which are only comprehensible through Nietzsche, Heidegger, Lacan - signifier theory, the destruction of the belief in language, the start of its subjection - to logic. The young Wittgenstein would have liked RM. The later one would have seen its inability to account for the actual gradations of differentiation. Youre a dimension off.

Again, logic is a high form of ethics, requiring several standards in play at once.

I am the definition of your lack of ethics. That is uncannily true.

BS. The definition of ethics has nothing at all to do with laws of logic. Ethics is about social behavior. It is a good idea to be consistent in communication and behavior in society, but that is not the definition of logic, nor of ethics.

Now you are just off in the weeds again.

We managed to arrive at logic despite language - Nietzsche did this by appointing a supreme term.
Will to power.

He identified such a term that could form an logical emerging hierarchy of hypothetical events that resembles the real world.
His work is the constant relaying of the identity between the actual character of specific cases of existence and the hypothesis of will to power.

So that is how a principle is born from the reality of man. Which is the reality Aristotle conveniently circumvented by opting for “A”. It was useful for the time being.

Now, “A” means : a quantum of will to power. An minimum of WtP, of which I have no clue if it is infinitesimal or an actual physical minimum; there is no way to know, and it doesn’t matter. We seek only to understand how a thing comes into being and how it proceeds through becoming until its merges with its environment in a larger becoming, not anything a priori to being.

I do not presuppose a logic before being - being is predicated only partially and then only very passively, by the lack of necessity of its opposite.
I rather allow myself to restrict myself to define that which, if there is being, must be its most fundamental character.
Where WtP is the filling in of the equation “A”=“A” as WtP matches WtP,
VO is the inquisition imposed on the = sign, so as to discover how one quantum matches another. How exactly is the match established? What is the criterium? This criterium is the same thing as the origin of the uncovering of the logic of quality from the insufficiency of purely quantitative reasoning to ground itself.

On the stock market the law of identity pertains to the technical analysis, which is to say the graph, the moving post-facto distribution of forces, where value ontology pertains to the fundamentals, the nature of the company and the climate of the economy - the qualitative background of the technical analysis, which is analogous to Rational Metaphysics.

As they say, when news breaks, charts go out the window. Fundamentals are what I interested in, how to predict those without having to go in and do forensics. Thats how I arrived at the concept of valuing. Its the most accurate all round identifier, completely inevitable as a standard for every bit of logical equation you can build.