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0121 Chapter seven is titled, “Science As The Offer That Cannot Be Refused in the Post-Truth Condition”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0122 How can this be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you ever refused a gift?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mean, like the gift of a famous politician’s trust in science?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeah, here is the gift2c<\/sub> that is fashioned into legislation that defines “success”2c<\/sub> in the post-truth condition.  Success2c<\/sub> is more than merely achieving an actionable judgment2c<\/sub>. Success2c<\/sub> leads to actions that set the stage for normal people asking, “What is happening?3a<\/sub>” in regards to the possibility that ‘something’ is happening1a<\/sub>.  Success2c<\/sub><\/em> opens a cognitive space2a<\/sub> that is observed and measured1b<\/sub> by experts3b<\/sub> in the psychometric sciences of marketing and advocacy<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0123 As an aside, I ask, “Does the one of scientism3c<\/sub><\/em> <\/sub>care whether its judgment2c<\/sub><\/em> leads to human flourishing or immolation?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t think so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If “trust the science” means “trusting the judgment of the Queen Bee”, then I definitely don’t think so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0124 Okay, instead of that distraction about a gift,<\/em> let me blunder forward with another aside, this time asking, “How does an empirio-normative judgment2c<\/sub><\/em> serve as an interventional sign-vehicle (SVi<\/sub>) whose sign-object is what people think is happening2a<\/sub><\/em> (SOi<\/sub>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The question, “What is happening?”, appeals to the intellect3a<\/sub>.  The intellect3a<\/sub> associates to the interventional sign-interpretant (SIi<\/sub>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue of ‘something’ happening<\/em> addresses the will1a<\/sub>.  The will1a<\/sub> also associates to the interventional sign-interpretant (SIi<\/sub>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

125 So, while Fuller frames the offer3c<\/sub><\/em> in terms of advertising and other ways that an expert can provide value by informing the scrappy player of options that are outside the cognitive space that the player is already familiar with,<\/em> I frame the offer2c<\/sub><\/em> in terms of a general structure for the empirio-normative judgment<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For example, the disciplinary language of journalism<\/em> (relation,<\/em> thirdness) brings a normative narrative<\/em> (what ought to be,<\/em>secondness) into relation with observations of<\/em> what people say<\/em> (what is,<\/em> firstness).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not everything that people say is regarded as phenomena.  Only opinions that are (1) not metaphysical<\/em> and (2) pertinent to the topic at hand<\/em> are so regarded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0126 Just like a scientific discovery2c<\/sub>, the empirio-normative judgment2c<\/sub> is an offer2c<\/sub>, a gift2c<\/sub>, that cannot be refused.   Especially, an empirio-normative judgment2c<\/sub> cannot be refused once it is constellated as the purchase of a product<\/em> or a legislative edict or decree<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0127 Of course, I3a,1a<\/sub> face a choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On one hand, I2a<\/sub> better get on the current paradigm bus<\/em> if I want to be a certified expert2b<\/sub> and receive the blessings of opportunity1c<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, I2a<\/sub> should seek to understand the gift2c<\/sub> that wants to transform my voice2a<\/sub><\/em> into phenomena2a<\/sub> that it can observe and measure1b<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0128 On one hand, I may accommodate the domination of the empirio-normative judgment<\/em> and adjust what I say<\/em> to what experts desire to observe and measure<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, I may… what?.. say what I think<\/em> regardless of what is happening3a<\/sub><\/em> and the potential of ‘something’ happening1a<\/sub><\/em>, only to have my voice2a<\/sub><\/em> simply disregarded as not phenomena2a<\/sub>?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

0129 Fuller offers the example of the potlatch tradition among tribes of the Pacific Northwest<\/em>.  British colonizers<\/em>suppress the native tradition because it makes no sense at all.  Why spend your time hoarding all sorts of things, such as barrels of seal fat and thousands of smoked salmon filets, in order to destroy and eat them all in one gigantic and crazy fun party?  It’s like those damn French in New Orleans with their Mardi Gras.  The bean-counting experts of the British Empire<\/em> will not have it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suppose that the downside of the potlatch tradition<\/em> is that everyone gets trapped in a weird competition<\/em> in regards to “honor”, requiring that each person assist one or another big-man in showing that my big-man<\/em> can throw a more magnificent party than your big-man<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0130 So, in regards to an empirio-normative judgment2c<\/sub>,<\/em> here is the judgment of the Euro-centric administrators<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The disciplinary languages of the British colonizers (relation,<\/em> thirdness) brings a normative narrative that the potlach tradition is an entrapment system (what ought to be,<\/em> secondness) into relation with observations of claptrap about which big-man throws the best party (what is,<\/em> firstness).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0131 Now, this actionable judgment<\/em> makes sense in the post-truth fashion<\/em> where two interrelated elements<\/em> are contested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘What is’<\/em> and relation<\/em> concern a contest between true and false,<\/em> where “true” consists of British administrators’ observations and measurements of phenomena<\/em> and “false” consists in all those opinions and facts than cannot be formalized through expert observations and measurements<\/em>. Why?  Everything the natives say<\/em> is rubbish about parties<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘What ought to be’<\/em> and<\/em> relation<\/em> concern a contest over how<\/em> the matter is to be decided<\/em>.  The experts not only expect to have their way1c<\/sub>, but them having their way2c<\/sub><\/em> signals their virtue2b<\/sub><\/em>, which is more “objective”<\/em> than the “subjective” opinions and facts2a<\/sub> that the experts might consider if they could accept them as ‘sensible enough to take into consideration’1b<\/sub><\/em>.  Fuller indicates how the matter is to be decided<\/em> in the title of chapter seven.  Science<\/em> is the offer that cannot be refused<\/em> in the post-truth condition<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trust our empirio-normative judgments<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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