8/03/26
vocabulary
Unassailable Premises
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Working Premises
"Unassailable" claims a standing the document does not have and that a fallibilist position cannot claim. The premises are working premises, held until something better arrives.
/premises
8/03/26
vocabulary
Against Racism
→
Against the Standpoint Veto
The old heading named a topic the section was not about. The section concerns criticism made from social position, and now says so.
/refutations
8/03/26
argument
Section rewritten. The claim that social position shapes what a writer can see is now accepted rather than resisted, since it follows from the finitude argument in the System. Only the unanswerable form of the criticism is resisted. Invective removed throughout.
/refutations
8/03/26
argument
Paragraph 25 withdrawn and replaced. It had claimed that criticism from finitude and insularity was dissolved in advance by pragmatism. It was not, and the paragraph said so now.
/system
8/03/26
argument
Paragraphs 29 and 30 revised. A demonstration that an argument is invalid is now sufficient to require its revision, without practical supplement. Practical failure is what refutes the system as a whole; local failure refutes locally.
/system
8/03/26
argument
Paragraph 29a added, stating four conditions under which the system should be considered refuted.
/system
8/03/26
argument
Paragraph 47a added. The step from mutual intelligibility of terms to equal standing between persons is marked as a posit rather than a deduction. The argument for it is owed and has not been given.
/system
8/03/26
policy
Corrections page rewritten. Every policy is unchanged: nothing is taken down, corrections are public, a source is what makes a correction actionable. The framing around those policies was hostile to the people it was addressed to, and has been replaced.
/problems
8/03/26
site
Start Here page added. The site previously opened onto fifty-one documents with no reading order.
/start
8/03/26
source
References sections built for every document that cites anything, drawn from the Zotero library. Inline citation keys now render as author and work rather than as raw keys.
8/03/26
site
Note filenames stripped of timecodes and emoji. Redirects preserved so old links continue to resolve.
8/03/26
site
Site rebuilt as a 1991 homepage in deep space.
8/14/24
policy
Discursive Commitments revised.
/discursive-commitments
11/10/22
site
Documents for Edification opened to the public.
/documents-for-edification