Conditionalism

Posts tagged with conditionalism.

Posts

  • Conditionalism - Philosophical theory: all truth claims inherently depend on implicit/explicit conditions.
  • Defending Bayes, Part 2 - Reframes empirical uncertainty as timeline uncertainty—uncertainty about which timeline we inhab
  • Defending Bayes, Part 3 - Sharpens distinction between scientific (explanatory) and empirical (timeline) knowledge.
  • Nonsense - Technical definition of nonsense: utterance lacking interpretability within any coherent seman
  • Sacred Coherence - Proposes logical coherence as supreme value (“Vulcanism” / Sacred Coherence).
  • Introducing LARPitarianism - Novel political philosophy: “Everybody should be free to LARP; nobody should be forced to LARP.”
  • Policy on Precedence and Contradictions - Meta-level policy: Later entries supersede earlier ones when contradictions arise.
  • Navigating Moral Realism with Agent-Binding - Agent-binding resolves Humean skepticism about moral realism.
  • Reasonable Disagreement - Meta-level insight: Reasonable people can disagree even with same information. Despite rigorous
  • Defending Bayes, Part 9 (Interlude) - Critical conceptual clarification distinguishing Measure (objective physical probability) from Crede
  • Modern Monetary Fallacy - Comprehensive critique of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) from axionic/libertarian perspective.
  • Communism at Home - Argues communism succeeds within families but fails at scale due to trust limits.
  • The Ethics of Immigration vs. Colonization - Counterfactual thought experiment: what if European arrival had been ethical immigration rather than
  • What Counts as a Belief - Rigorous definition of belief within axionic framework.
  • Liberalism vs. Authoritarianism - This post, responding to Andrew Doyle’s observation that authoritarianism is humanity’s default stat
  • Resolving the Paradox of Tolerance - This post resolves Popper’s paradox of tolerance (unlimited tolerance leads to tolerance’s destructi
  • The Three Levels of Truth - This post synthesizes three classical theories of truth—correspondence, coherence, pragmatism—into a
  • Look Where You’re Going - Unpacks the multi-layered wisdom in the simple advice “look where you’re going,” revealing depth fro
  • The Highest Good - Applies Conditionalism to the claim “everyone must worship something,” showing truth depends on inte
  • What Counts as Property - This post provides rigorous technical definition of property, establishing five necessary conditions
  • Valorism vs. Vitalism - This post contrasts two fundamentally opposed yet internally coherent philosophical ideals: Vitalism
  • A Minimal Ontology - Proposes deliberately circular ontology as philosophically superior to foundationalist alternatives.
  • The Hedgefox - Proposes “Hedgefox” synthesis transcending Isaiah Berlin’s famous hedgehog/fox dichotomy.
  • Begging The Question - This post critiques Derek Parfit’s On What Matters—at first glance magnum opus of philosopher
  • Beyond Clown World - A response to Wokal Distance’s claim that only “a story about God” can redeem meaning from postmoder
  • In Defence of Conditional Truth - This foundational post articulates Axio’s philosophy of conditionalism as an escape from the false d
  • A Genealogy of Agency - This foundational post traces the intellectual lineage connecting Axio’s frameworks to their philoso
  • The Presumption of Innocence - This post critiques JD Vance’s claim that killing cartel members is the “highest and best use” of th
  • Straight Answers, Crooked Questions - This post examines Liron Shapira’s “hardest eval” where GPT-5 bluntly answered three yes/no question
  • Conditional Divinity - This post engages Joscha Bach’s redefinition of God as an emergent attractor in agency-space rather
  • Entangled Truths - Applies Conditionalism framework to dissolve Leibniz’s classical distinction between necessary “trut
  • Why Does Ice Float? - Extends Chaos/Coherence framework by clarifying nested hierarchy of reality layers.
  • Against Worldly Oughts - This essay critiques Brian Cantwell Smith’s thesis that normativity (truth, reference, meaning) is n
  • On What Matters - This essay critiques Derek Parfit’s “On What Matters” through the lens of Conditionalism, arguing Pa
  • The Shadow War - This post reinterprets the Shadow War from Babylon 5 as a philosophical conflict about civilizationa
  • The Viability Criterion - This post serves as the executive summary and conceptual gateway to the Value Sequence, reframing Ax
  • Axionic Commitments - This post makes foundational assumptions explicit, functioning as architectural specification that c
  • In Defense of Centrism - This essay defends centrism not as aesthetic moderation or political compromise, but as a rigorous g