ACCOUNTABLE AND UNACCOUNTABLE TRUTH
(worth repeating)
The analytic and cosmopolitan concept of truth (including Popper’s truth), like the levantine pseudo-truth it arose from, is an UNACCOUNTABLE concept of truth.
Whereas the Indo-European truth, refers to testimony given between warriors whose life or death depends upon the veracity of that testimony. Etymologically, “Tréw” means testimony ‘like an oak”: and therefore, ACCOUNTABLE and WARRANTIED truth given via the spoken word.
Conversely, “true” for cosmopolitans, Jews and Muslims means ‘the mind of god’. Not ‘that which I am accountable for speaking truthfully’.
This was the mistake of the analytic movement’s distraction as well. They tried to improve on truth and found all they could achieve was tautology, rather than spending a century on SPEAKING TRUTHFULLY. Popper sensed this, mises sensed it, but they failed. Just as the christian europeans failed, because they assumed truth and assumed that the problem was logical instead of truthful.
This is why the 20th century was such a failure: the operationalist, intuitionists, and praxeologists all FAILED.
So, now, that is my job. That’s our job. That’s the purpose of Propertarianism, Operationalism, and Testimonial Truth: to restore the purpose of philosophy to the SPEAKING of truth – not how to merely investigate the phenomenon of the physical word. Or not how to persuade people without unaccountable for it.
Discovering the truth is just labor, and doing it morally. Speaking the truth is a skill that must be mastered: Speaking operationally. Giving truthful testimony.