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Mappig

Etymology ME mappe-(mounde) < ML mappa mundi map of the world. Initially introduced on the BBS of the Church of Virus in 2006 at http://www.churchofvirus.org/bbs/index.php?board=32;action=display;threadid=37461;start=0.

Noun 'mappig' (plural mappigs)

Mappig means that one weykens that something described as mappig is probably not false. The root signifies that assertions about the probable non falsity of a thing, the existence of which is demanded by significant, validatable evidence, are in turn derived from reasonable suppositions about the goodness of the mapping of the suppositions about the thing to validatable, communicable, observable, underlying reality. Only significant, predictive, non-tautalogical statements can be in the state signified by mappig. This is because a tautological statement is necessarily true or false; because only significant statements are predictive; and, because, outside of trivial, logically complete systems, only predictive statements can be falsified. So mappig implies that a significant predictive statement as to something having sustainable characteristics is being-towards-becoming likely, either statistically, or through alignment with and non-contradiction of appropriate well-supported hypothesis of causation. A thing can only be regarded as mappig IFF there is evidence necessitating that thing, AND IFF we can enumerate facts, which if sustained, could falsify the statement.
The mappig of the Universe having instantiated in the big bang is almost one.

Collective Noun 'mappen'

A group of supported, coherent, related and mutually consistent mappigs.
My mappen includes insistence on the right of all self-aware beings to be treated with empathy and respect.

Adjective 'mappig'

A mappig value is equivalent to a "truth value" if and only if the the alleged "truth" is as a result of weyken

Related terms

Weyken
Provisional Truth
Falsifiability
Critical Rationalism

Introduced: The Hermit, 2006 December (Letter posted to the BBS follows http://www.churchofvirus.org/bbs/index.php?board=32;action=display;threadid=37461)

Mappig : A possible sublimation of truth

Mappig: Adjective, noun. From ME mappe-(mounde) < ML mappa mundi map of the world. Mappig means that one weykens that something described as mappig is probably not false. The root signifies that assertions about the probable non falsity of a thing, the existence of which is demanded by significant, validatable evidence, are in turn derived from reasonable suppositions about the goodness of the mapping of the suppositions about the thing to validatable, communicable, observable, underlying reality.

Only significant, predictive, non-tautalogical statements can be in the state signified by mappig. This is because a tautological statement is necessarily true or false; because only significant statements are predictive; and, because, outside of trivial, logically complete systems, only predictive statements can be falsified. So mappig implies that a significant predictive statement as to something having sustainable characteristics is being-towards-becoming likely, either statistically, or through alignment with and non-contradiction of appropriate well-supported hypothesis of causation. A thing can only be regarded as mappig IFF there is evidence necessitating that thing, AND IFF we can enumerate facts, which if sustained, could falsify the statement.

Expressing Mappig mathematically,

If -1 = Proven Absolutely False (which can be proved by sufficiently demonstrating a contradiction) and 0 = Insufficient information to weyken the mappigness or falsity of the statement and Not False = 1 = Proven Absolutely True (which can only happen in trivial systems with absolute logical characteristics.)

then:

0 < Mappig < 1 with Mappig tending towards 1

Note that mappig never implies certainty, but establishes only a provisional mappig value somewhat less than, but tending towards unity.

Also Mappig.able, Mappig.ability, Mappigity: Something which can be shown to be mappig or most probably mappig.

Also Mappig.er, Mappig.est, Mappig.ed, Mappig.ing, Mappig.ness.

Comments welcomed.

Kind Regards

Hermit

Originally introduced at the Church of Virus:Re:Beyond belief: In place of God:Reply #5:2006-12-28 14:07:14 in response to:

I disagree that reason, as embodied by science or otherwise, tells us how to discover truth. It tells us how to discover falsity, or at most what we ought, according to current data, accept as true. Its advantage, as far as I can see, is not in its "accuracy" but in its adaptibility. For what it's worth, I think "truth" is a horrible word, and needs a new alternative akin to "weyken".