S01 E05: Self-Referential Coherency, Universalizable Principle, Arbitrariness, Relativism

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Supporting the podcast with your direct, monetary contribution helps to ensure that the publication will not grind to a halt due to the adverse conditions under which it is currently produced.   Please consider purchasing our premium content at: https://garrotepodcast.supercast.com   For a comprehensive description of what premium content entails, please visit https://www.garrotepodcast.com/tutorial , and look for the Premium Content Tutorial page.   In this episode, Chingachgook and Howard Roark ascertain the following term and definition:   Holden Mode—“the process of identifying insufficiencies in people or things, while failing to specify a tangible standard by which those insufficiencies, and their alternative sufficiencies, can be measured* (*note: engaging in Holden Mode leads directly to the hell of nihilism)”

Supporting the podcast with your direct, monetary contribution helps to ensure that the publication will not grind to a halt due to the adverse conditions under which it is currently produced.   Please consider purchasing our premium content at: https://garrotepodcast.supercast.com   For a comprehensive description of what premium content entails, please visit https://www.garrotepodcast.com/tutorial , and look for the Premium Content Tutorial page.   In this episode, Chingachgook and Howard Roark ascertain the following terms and definitions:   Initiation—“the voluntary practice of not waiting to resolve a point of contention* (*corollary: contention resolution requires the acceptance that one’s observations might be inaccurate)”   Non-initiation—“the active avoidance of resolving a point of contention”   Prisoner’s Dilemma—“a quadrant structure of permutations in which large, unilateral benefit might be gained in the short term, but will result in certain relational devastation in the long term, if the individual opts for said unilateral benefit at the expense of sustainable relational prosperity that can arise from mutual initiation”   The Fog—“a metaphor for the process of hiding material, whether purposefully or inadvertently, rather than fully specifying and examining this material, despite this specification and examination being better in the long term, particularly pertaining to that which will or will not keep a relationship sustainable and prosperous”

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Supporting the podcast with your direct, monetary contribution helps to ensure that the publication will not grind to a halt due to the adverse conditions under which it is currently produced.   Please consider purchasing our premium content at: https://garrotepodcast.supercast.com   For a comprehensive description of what premium content entails, please visit https://www.garrotepodcast.com/tutorial , and look for the Premium Content Tutorial page.   In this episode, Chingachgook and Howard Roark ascertain the following term and definition:   Aristotle’s Grid—“an organizational system that seeks to subdivide and/or categorize all relevant information, resulting in strict internal consistency* (*note: whether or not Aristotle’s Grid is used in a way that is consistent with the Logos is a separate, but necessary question)”

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Supporting the podcast with your direct, monetary contribution helps to ensure that the publication will not grind to a halt due to the adverse conditions under which it is currently produced.   Please consider purchasing our premium content at: https://garrotepodcast.supercast.com   For a comprehensive description of what premium content entails, please visit https://www.garrotepodcast.com/tutorial , and look for the Premium Content Tutorial page.   In this episode, Chingachgook and Howard Roark ascertain the following terms and definitions:   Epistemic Card—“a pathological form of rebuttal that seeks to reject a given proposition by appealing to uncertainty regarding descriptive claims”   Provisional Position—“a method to proceed in the face of epistemic uncertainty, characterized by the binding of one or more claims to a single causal sequence (i.e., an ‘if-then’ statement), temporarily forgoing the need to affirm the antecedent (of that sequence)”

Supporting the podcast with your direct, monetary contribution helps to ensure that the publication will not grind to a halt due to the adverse conditions under which it is currently produced.   Please consider purchasing our premium content at: https://garrotepodcast.supercast.com   For a comprehensive description of what premium content entails, please visit https://www.garrotepodcast.com/tutorial , and look for the Premium Content Tutorial page.   In this episode, Chingachgook and Howard Roark ascertain the following terms and definitions:   Problematic Tiger Move—“a logical response that is only effective when placed in a specific context”   Bullhorns—“a dichotomy strategy that incontrovertibly demonstrates a contradiction by first granting an opponent’s premise”   Dr. Peterson’s address to the Montreal Press Club: https://youtu.be/EuNeqawPuuY

Supporting the podcast with your direct, monetary contribution helps to ensure that the publication will not grind to a halt due to the adverse conditions under which it is currently produced.   Please consider purchasing our premium content at: https://garrotepodcast.supercast.com   For a comprehensive description of what premium content entails, please visit https://www.garrotepodcast.com/tutorial , and look for the Premium Content Tutorial page.   In this episode, Chingachgook and Howard Roark ascertain the following terms and definitions:   Self-Referential Coherency—“an attribute resulting from a claim being applied to itself, and as a result, creating function rather than a paradox”   Universalizable Principle—“a self-referentially coherent, normative claim regarding human behavior”   Arbitrariness—“an attribute resulting from the consequences of a claim experiencing zero change when said claim is swapped for a random alternative claim”   Relativism—“the claim that states, ‘there is no such thing as absolute truth’”

Supporting the podcast with your direct, monetary contribution helps to ensure that the publication will not grind to a halt due to the adverse conditions under which it is currently produced.   Please consider purchasing our premium content at: https://garrotepodcast.supercast.com   For a comprehensive description of what premium content entails, please visit https://www.garrotepodcast.com/tutorial , and look for the Premium Content Tutorial page.   In this episode, Chingachgook and Howard Roark ascertain the following terms and definitions:   Barbing—“a situation in which two people are actively using the Logos together in dialogue”   Pirsig’s Knife—“a method of decisive subdivision that provides more than one option of analysis”   Pirsig’s Train—“a metaphor for dynamic knowledge”   Being on the Front of Pirsig’s Train—“a condition resulting from optimizing the growth of dynamic knowledge (usually characterized by hesitant speech patterns and an inability to speak articulately and decisively)”   Free-standing Claim—“a claim whose truth value can be affirmed or denied by anyone, regardless of the context in which it is made”