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‟Through the heaven of civilization, the human being seeks to isolate himself from the world, to break its hostile power.”
– The Unique and Its Property,Max Stirner
Howdy, I'm 
LordCompost, and this is my user page.
I am an 
Egoist, 
Pragmatist, 
Post-Civilisationist, 
Iconoclast, and 
Anti-Humanist.
I am influenced by a variety of schools, most notably by 
Post-Analytic Philosophy, 
Psychoanalysis, File:Idealism.png German Idealism, 
Political Nihilism, and by various 
Post-Structuralist thinkers.
My interests lie in 
Epistemology, 
Philosophy of Religion, and to a lesser extent, 
Political Science.
Philosophy
Epistemology & Metaphysics
Convention and Contradiction
These are the five 'main' principles of my views on convention and knowledge revision.
1. All knowledge, truth, fact, etc., is conventional and grounded in belief/faith (subjectively accepted).
2. All knowledge, Et al., is open to revision, being neither universal nor necessary.
3. All knowledge, Et al., is individual; intersubjective convention exists only in the mind of determinate and embodied individuals, each having their own version of this social truth.
4. All knowledge, Et al., is perspectival; no 'view from nowhere' exists.
5. The above claims are also open to revision and the charge that they are merely conventional.
Scepticism and Hypostasis
These are the five 'main' principles of my views on scepticism, the search for truth, and hypostasis.
1. There is no objective truth, only conventional and social belief.
2. The continuing search for such truth, such as by sceptics like Pyrrhonists, leads to the incorrect development of established "truth." Instead, we should continue to revise our language and theories to be more useful.
3. Without truth, we have pragmatic belief, i.e., what is descriptionally and predictively useful. I reject the 'No Miracles' argument[1], noting that previous "incorrect beliefs" have also been useful.
4. All objects, entities, beings, etc., are merely useful fictions; entities ranging from numbers and bosons to tables and planets are only posits of theories and do not exist without them.
5. No theory correctly 'discovers' objects; to think so would be to hypostasize these thoughts.
Paradigms and Fixed Ideas
These are the five 'main' principles of my views on historicism, constructivism, and incommensurability.
1. All knowledge, Et al., is taken to be universal and or necessary. I disagree; it is situationally, casually, and materially grounded in what is useful, accepted, and meaningful in each period or location.
2. All knowledge, Et al., revision, change, and development involves negation, that is, alteration from one thing to another within the same 'genus'.[2]
4. All knowledge, Et al., revision involves the 'fixed idea' of truth itself; we may throw out this or that truth, but we always remain within the truth. The fact that truth exists is 'always' true for us.
4. All knowledge, Et al., exists within the boundaries of what can be said and what is true; i.e., Catholics in the High Middle Ages could only do philosophy religiously; they couldn't question its truth
5. Thus, each truth[3] and truth itself is sacred and non-critiqueable. It is not ours to shape; it has nothing to do with our interests or situations; it exists merely as a "force" above us.
Rhetoric and Belief
These are the five 'main' principles of my views on belief, persuasion, and relativism.
1. All knowledge, Et al., exists due to power relations; these arise from factors such as education, position, fame, 'natural' ability[4], and social acceptance.
2. Individuals are inherently linked with their environment (material and social) and are strongly determined by its influence; individuals are co-opted into language, ideology, culture, etc.,
3. Politics, culture, economics, etc., are thus grounded in propaganda and rhetoric; political consent is manufactured by these factors.
4. Social reasoning evolved to better help individuals convince others of their thoughts and not to discover the truth[5].
5. Evolution, social effectiveness, and predictive ability are all subject to our view of causality; however, this does not mean that causality is metaphysically real; it is also conventional and merely correlative.
Politics
WIP
Notes
- ↑ The success of science would be miraculous if scientific theories were not at least approximately true descriptions of the world.
- ↑ I take this view from
Plato's Sophist, where he argues that negation is just difference - i.e., not-small still means a size, either big or the same.
- ↑ Obviously, during its time; "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer.
- ↑ What is seen to be a natural ability, such as
Kant's conception of Genius, or 
Lacan's 'Subject-Supposed-To-Know'.
- ↑ Again, this is the most current and 'predictively' effective research in evolutionary psychology; it is subject to revision and is not 'true'.
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