FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2024 1:17 pm
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2024 9:22 am
I still not sure what is your fuss about.
I understand 'descriptive' to be "serving or seeking to describe".
Your account isn't descriptive, it isn't even close. The
common sense of fact is something you explicitly deny. You must realise it is counter-intuitive to tell people that the moon only exists when people say it does. The reason it is counter-intuitive is that it runs counter to the common sense meaning of fact.
Strawman.
ChatGpt already explained [see below] what is meant by 'descriptive' i.e. it is merely explaining and describing that FSK are a common occurrence, event, methodology within fields of knowledge.
ChatGpt Explained:
The statement:
"This is not an invention but a descriptive term for what humans have always done when constructing bodies of knowledge"
means that the concept of a Framework and System of Knowledge (FSK) is not a novel creation but rather a way to articulate or describe a process that has always been present in human cognition and knowledge-building practices. Let’s break this down:
1. What Does "Descriptive" Mean in This Context?
Descriptive (Serving to Describe): In this context, "descriptive" means the term FSK is being used to describe or explain a process that exists and functions in reality, rather than prescribing what should happen.
Not Normative or Invented: The FSK is not being proposed as a new system or method but is instead a way to identify and make explicit something inherent in how humans approach knowledge.
2. Why is the FSK a Descriptive Term?
Humans have always used frameworks to structure and validate their understanding of the world. For example:
Science: The scientific method is a framework involving observation, hypothesis, experimentation, and validation.
Law: Legal systems rely on structured frameworks to interpret laws, precedents, and evidence.
Culture: Even informal practices, like table manners, operate within culturally defined frameworks.
The term FSK simply names and clarifies this general feature of human cognition and intellectual activity—it doesn’t invent it.
3. FSK as "What Humans Have Always Done"
The idea of using criteria, rules, or systems to organize knowledge is an inherent characteristic of human cognition. Examples include:
Ancient Greek philosophers like Aristotle creating taxonomies for animals and logic.
Religious systems structuring moral codes and worldviews.
Modern scientific communities developing peer-review systems.
All of these are examples of humans naturally constructing and relying on FSKs to make sense of reality and build coherent bodies of knowledge.
4. Distinction from Descriptive Ethics
Your interlocutor may link "descriptive" to descriptive ethics, which studies how people actually behave or believe in ethical situations, rather than prescribing what they ought to do. However, this is not the same as the use of "descriptive" here.
In the case of the FSK, "descriptive" means explaining or articulating how humans systematically structure knowledge—not observing ethical behavior.
5. Why This Matters for Your Thesis
By calling the FSK a "descriptive term," the emphasis is on the naturalness and ubiquity of frameworks in human thought. This reinforces the argument that the FSK is not a radical or artificial construct but a conceptual tool to explain something that already exists and has always existed.
If your interlocutor challenges the use of "descriptive," you could clarify that:
The term "descriptive" is being used in its broad sense, meaning "serving to describe" a universal phenomenon in human cognition, not in the narrower sense used in ethics or philosophy.
You are trying to replace the normal set of discourses in which we discuss various different things in different ways appropriate to the sorts of statement and question involved as something else.
Your thing is a a hierarchy of all the possible subjects that doesn't exist for anybody else and really makes no sense at all. This is the FSK beast you have wrought, a big all encompassing framework of all the subjects and topics, a giant edifice of bullshit that has only a passing resemblance to normal talk of discourses, domains and fields.
It's not real. Nobody else works with these things this way. It's prescriptive not descriptive.
ChatGpt already explained above how a FSK work in the real world and provided examples.
The obvious is the scientific FSK with its scientific methods, principles, assumptions, peer review and whatever conditions that qualify it as scientific.
If you think other people actually secretly agree with you that it makes sense to say that the rules of fencing are only 32% credible, making them dramatically inferior to zoology, you are massively mistaken.
Strawman. That is a very stupid sense of comparison, i.e. fencing to zoology.
The comparison must be relevant, e.g. the credibility and objectivity of a specific pseudoscience FSK at 5% is dramatically inferior to science as the gold standard indexed at 100%.
or
the alchemy FSK at 5% compared to the 90% of science-chemistry FSL
the philosophical realism FSK at 10% compared to the Empirical Realism FSK at 80%
and so on with comparable comparisons.