A Review of The Refutation

A detailed book review of The Refutation of Kant, which was never on my original list of priorities for Veriphysics, but came out of my attempt to distinguish it from the most significant previous philosophies, and, of course, Enlightenment philosophy.

“The Refutation of Kant” is an important addition to philosophical study. It has a more immediate and direct impact if the reader refers to the summary in Chapter 10, then begins again. Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason” was a serious work of philosophy, aimed to settle the disputes between rationalism and empiricism by transcending both. The subtle flaw at the base, ignored by modern mathematics and physics, but one that stymied or redirected research in other fields, was the amphiboly, the deliberate use of one term for two separate meanings, which damaged this transcendence.

The key term in Kant’s philosophy is the “thing-in-itself.” The thing, an object or occurrence, can be investigated by phenomena means (observe, measure), but the “thing-in-itself” is treated separately. Kant treats it as a single category: the noumenal realm, everything that is not phenomenal, all of it equally and uniformly inaccessible to human cognition. The treatment is uniform. The term is not. It is composed of two different readings, and the switch between the two is the problematic amphiboly. Reading A (the restricted reading): Some features of reality are inaccessible to a given cognitive apparatus because that apparatus imposes structure on experience that cannot be subtracted out by means available to that apparatus. We cannot perceive without perceptual organs. For example, try seeing heat without an infrared camera. The noumenal bounds can be found and reduced by better measurement – it becomes a question of limits. Reading B (the full reading) carries different meaning: No features of “reality-as-it-actually-is” are accessible to human cognition. We are permanently sealed inside the phenomenal envelope, and everything we experience is structured by our own contribution to that experience. You can’t know heat because you can’t, infrared camera notwithstanding. Both readings are used interchangeably, though the meanings and outcomes are vastly different.

Refuting this amphiboly is time-consuming, from the need to understand the text and logic used to construct it. Take the time to step through this, and follow the attributes to Kant’s own words in the original documents, as this refutes the philosopher’s ideas as written, not any expansion or defense of them written later. Some of the mathematical refutations were already in use as the time of the first edition (1781), as in the differential and integral calculi of Newton and Leibnitz. This part was far easier to follow, as I’ve used irrational and imaginary numbers extensively. This electronic review would be impossible without understanding and applying concepts that under Kant’s philosophy would be relegated to the unknowable “thing-of-itself.”

There is much of good use in Kant’s philosophy, but a significant basic premise was refuted. What this means is not discarding a formidable body of work, but re-examining what now opens up: without the amphiboly being used to limit understanding of the “thing-in-itself,” scientists are now freed to use caution and due humility to ask questions and create concepts about things shunted off for 240 years, and investigate with new and different measurement methods to examine phenomena they were essentially told not to look at.

This is the scientific method as best applied: ask a question, hypothesize, and experiment. If the answer is “no,” one question can be set aside, and something different or unusual may be tried instead, to discover more about a thing or a feature of the universe.

On a related note, it only seemed fair to turn things around and permit the major philosophical traditions to analyze the Triveritas and see if it held up from their various perspectives, which I did in this philosophical paper:

The logical, mathematical, and empirical proofs of the Triveritas establish its superiority from within its own framework. This paper tests it from outside. Seventeen major traditions in Western and Eastern epistemology are examined, each asked to evaluate the Triveritas using only its own preferred method. Each tradition confirms the component it is equipped to evaluate. No tradition’s method, honestly applied, refutes any dimension of the Triveritas. No tradition confirms the whole. This paper does not claim to establish the necessity or superiority of the triple conjunction; those results are established by the three internal proofs. It establishes a different and complementary result: systematic compatibility. The Triveritas is compatible with every major epistemological tradition examined across both the Western and Eastern canons, confirmed by each on the dimension each is equipped to assess, and contradicted by none. The inclusion of five Eastern traditions, developed independently of the Greek philosophical heritage, strengthens the result: the compatibility is not an artifact of a shared intellectual lineage.

The paper not only underlines the core strength of the Triveritas, but also illustrates the significance of Veriphysics by demonstrating how it is materially distinct from any of the preceding philosophical traditions. I understand that reading philosophy at this depth is not on the short list for most readers of this blog, but if you want to understand the foundations of the modern concept of truth and why they are not actually capable of supporting what is asserted, The Refutation of Kant is a good place to start.

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Float Down the River

It is said that if you sit by the river long enough, eventually the bodies of your enemies float by. There’s a song about that.

Today, after 31 years, we are saddened to announce that Salon is ceasing publication.

It’s difficult to find the right words for the end of something that has meant so much to so many people. Salon was never just a website. It was an idea about what journalism could be, born at a moment when the internet was still a largely unexplored frontier.

When Salon launched in November 1995, the web was a very different place. A small group of journalists set out to create something original: a publication with a strong voice, a curiosity about the world and a belief that the internet could bring journalism and readers together in new ways. They helped pioneer a form of journalism that would come to define an entirely new era of publishing.

Over three decades, Salon has brought together politics, culture, criticism and ideas in a way that was distinctly our own. Our journalism examined power and politics, questioned assumptions, surfaced stories that deserved attention and made room for perspectives that were too often overlooked. Our writers and editors helped shape conversations about the forces changing our lives. The work was never simply about keeping up with the news. It was about making sense of it.

The history of Salon is also the history of the people who made it. We are profoundly grateful to the journalists, editors, photographers, producers, designers, business teams and countless other colleagues who brought this publication to life across its many chapters. To the founders who imagined it, the staff members who built it, the contributors who gave it their voices and the alumni who carried its spirit into the world: Thank you. Salon’s legacy belongs to all of you.

I’m not going to lie, I thought Salon was already dead. But it’s nice to be able to celebrate its demise in a timely manner.

I’ll wait for you. I’ll wait for you to float down the river.

Yes, I’ll wait for you.

It’s not hate. It’s just faith in destiny

I will wait for you.

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It Wasn’t the Vaxx

A conservative German politician is found mysteriously dead in his hotel room:

A German conservative politician has been found dead at a Berlin hotel less than 24 hours before he was set to deliver a speech.

Hubert Aiwanger, 55, the leader of the conservative Free Voters party, was found lifeless in his room at the Neuer Fritz hotel on Wednesday evening after people close to him had failed to make contact with him, German newspaper Bild reports.

Police cars and several state government cars were pictured outside the hotel yesterday evening.

Mr Aiwanger, Bavaria’s deputy governor and the southern state’s economy minister, had planned to deliver a speech on Wednesday afternoon at the opening of a Berlin office of his party, but pulled out of the event for health reasons, according to reports.

An investigation into the cause of death was opened.

Spokesperson for Berlin’s public prosecutor’s office Michael Petzold told Bild that ‘nothing can be ruled out at this point’.

The newspaper reported that Mr Aiwanger’s body had no external injuries.

It might simply be a coincidence. But given the various assassinations of right-wing politicians in Germany over the last decade, combined with the recent coup attempt in Poland, that seems unlikely. Especially since he was an outspoken opponent of the vaxx.

One wonders what he was planning to say about Hillary Clinton…

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Where Was Our God?

Laura Loomer mocks the Christian God:

Also, for the Christian nationalists:

Where was your God last night?

That’s what I thought.

They can shout Christ is King all they want and disparage Jews and Israel but at the end of the day, godless communists and Sharia adherent Muslims are now in control of America.

Where was God last night?

Time for people to think about that.

Yes, let’s think about that. Our God is where He always is, at the heart of Creation beyond all space and time. As for His perceived lack of concern about the recent mid-term elections, it appears that our God, the Almighty, the Heavenly Father of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, has rendered America unto judgment for its sin of tolerating wicked satanists like Loomer and its people, and for permitting wicked, Christ-hating foreigners to rule over the USA.

God’s punishment of a nation typically involves no more than permitting its people to experience the inevitable consequences of their expressed preferences. These election results would appear to be very much in line with the historic Biblical examples.

Is it even remotely surprising to observe that Jewish organizations worked assiduously for more than 100 years to open the USA’s borders to the world, then see creatures like Loomer turn around and blame Americans for being foolish enough, and stupid enough, to do exactly what those organizations demanded? Obviously the repeal of the 1965 Hart-Cellar Naturalization Act is only the first baby step in an American Restoration.

Does Loomer support even that first little baby step?

Bad things always happen when the wicked ascend and redefine their vices as virtues. This is an immutable law of history. We should neither be surprised nor upset that the cities like New York and Detroit are now experiencing their own version of al-Andalus; both were occupied by foreigners long before the Muslims took over. But, as the history of Spain demonstrates, the Golden Age of America may still be before us.

Let’s just hope the American Reconquista doesn’t require 500 years.

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The Reason They Lost

Vice-President JD Vance admits that fighting Israel’s war cost Republicans the country.

There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.

So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we’re going to shock the world? “No,” he told me. “We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us.”

Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.

There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.

But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.

Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:

  1. End the war
  2. Focus on cost of living/inflation
  3. Put America First
  4. Change our relationship to Israel

Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)

In the next few months, there’s going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I’m open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.

The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.

If you’d like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that’s at least honest.

But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.

Amnesty? AMNESTY?

They still don’t understand the seriousness of the situation. I don’t think these so-called political experts understand that Americans would prefer literal heads on spikes and involuntary post-partum euthanasia to one more immigrant entering the country, even if said immigrant is legal, high-IQ, and a supermodel on the side. The fact is that politics is never going to be a potential solution for a problem that politics didn’t create.

No one ever voted for 130 million foreigners and their children entering the country. No one ever voted for allowing them to vote and even to rule over Americans in their own interests. Which is why voting simply cannot be a solution to the many woes caused by that invasion, especially not when many of the voting options now presented to Americans is a choice between one foreigner and another foreigner.

Asking a Scandinavian if they prefer for a Jew or a Somali to rule over them is obviously never going to be a viable solution.

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To Hell with Republicans

I have never been prouder to be able to say that I am not, and have never been, a Republican. Or, for that matter, a conservative. Now, I have no doubt that the Democrats cheated, scammed, and cast fraudulent votes like they always do. They are openly evil and beneath contempt. But the Republicans, as always, allowed them do it all across the USA despite their oaths to the Constitution. And, perhaps even more importantly, the Republicans have governed in an aggressively anti-American, anti-Christian manner every chance they’ve gotten; the mere fact that a) the Epstein files still haven’t been released in their unredacted entirety, b) material support for Ukraine and Israel is still being provided, c) Iran was repeatedly attacked against the American national interest, and d) H1B visas still exist are all reasons why the Republicans deserve no support whatsoever from any American.

Now, I am very well aware that some will say that the Democrats are worse. That is largely true. But that doesn’t change the fact that the Republicans are evil and anti-American, or that voting for them will do nothing to restore the USA to the American Christian nation it once was. If your answer to any of the problems and challenges facing Americans involves either “vote Democrat” or “vote Republican” you are simply fooling yourself.

And did you really ever imagine the Second Amendment was written for fear of Redcoats and Russians? Or is it more likely that the Founding Fathers anticipated the Republic would one day need to be restored?

This gentleman put it very well on X:

Every GOP strategist, consultant, and candidate should be forced to participate in a role-playing exercise this morning.

Your name is Bob. You’re a 49-year-old blue-collar worker in Ohio. You’ve always struggled to make ends meet. The good jobs were all shipped to China and the few remaining pay a pittance wage, undercut by endless illegal labor.

You’re a 3x Trump voter because you believed he would finally make America great again.

You put your son through Ohio State. He graduated cum laude in computer science. You couldn’t have been prouder. After months searching, he landed an entry-level job at Microsoft. Beneath his qualifications, but a good start for a smart kid.

Then he got laid off. That same month, Microsoft applied for 150,000 more H-1B visas because it can’t find qualified Americans.

Your son has spent six months back in his childhood bedroom, sending hundreds of applications without landing an interview.

On TV, Trump boasts about the greatest economy in history and how many women and minorities are finding jobs.

You decide a father-son steak night might cheer him up.

Gas is $4.50 a gallon. Filling your truck costs over $100. At Kroger, ribeyes are $30/lb. You settle for hamburger, even though 70/30 ground beef still costs $10+.

At checkout, a fat black woman is screaming at the cashier because her EBT will only cover most of the filet mignon and lobster in her cart.

You think to yourself how the Iran war has made everything expensive, but at least we’re stopping their nuclear bomb. You weren’t even sure where Iran was before you googled it after we first bombed them in March.

After dinner, you take your son to the county fair. Half the people aren’t speaking English. Virtually none of the crowd looks like you. You’re forced to leave early after a “teen takeover” turns violent. A foreign born judge pledges none of them will go to jail.

Back home, you turn on the TV. Vivek Ramaswamy is lecturing the crowd about American mediocrity and why Ohio needs more foreign talent.

Your son grows upset. You change the channel.

Now a Republican surrogate, the daughter of a governor or wife of an elderly billionaire, explains that young White men are the REAL welfare queens. They’d rather play videogames in their parents’ basements than work.

Your son says nothing. He just goes back to his childhood bedroom. You turn off the TV.

Then your neighbor starts blasting reggaeton and cracking open Modelos. He brought his cousin’s family from Mexico to help with all the minority-business contracts his construction firm keeps winning. Tonight they’re celebrating his nephew’s birth, the family’s first birthright American citizen.

You sit alone in your living room.

You worked hard, paid taxes, obeyed the law, and raised your son to do everything right. You voted Republican again and again because you believed somebody in Washington would finally fight for you.

Instead, your wages are stagnant. Groceries are unaffordable. Your community is unrecognizable. Your country is fighting another foreign war.

And upstairs, the son you sacrificed everything for is lying awake in the bedroom he slept in at twelve, wondering what the heck he’s even supposed to do with his life now.

Every time you turn on the TV, the Republicans you elected are either congratulating themselves or explaining why you and your son are the problem.

For ten years, they told you America’s future depended on your vote. Now you aren’t even sure America has a future worth defending.

The Republican Party needs to answer one simple question this morning:

You’ve spent a decade demanding Bob’s loyalty. You’ve given him stagnant wages, unaffordable groceries, another foreign war, and a son who did everything right but can’t find work.

And when they complain, you call them lazy, entitled, and racist.

What possible reason have you given Bob and his son to vote Republican? Do you honestly think you deserve their vote?

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All Politics is Identity

LKYist political realities have reached Texas:

Texas results by group

🔴 White men: +23 Republican
🔴 White women: +13 Republican
🔵 Latino men: +19 Democrat
🔵 Latino women: +42 Democrat
🔵 Black men: +77 Democrat
🔵 Black women: +84 Democrat
🔵 All others: +10 Democrat

Like it or not, demographics are destiny

Indeed. Politics proper can only function in the homogenous polis. Once different religions and ethnic groups live in the same government structure, all the ideological disagreements vanish and only the raw struggle for power between the different groups remains.

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The Secret Beneath the Smokescreen

AC suspects, and I tend to concur, that the mainstream evolutionary perspective in biology is a smokescreen intended to obscure certain facts about human origins:

Most “authority bioscience people” are midwits the conspiracy has elevated artificially to fill the role of the natural geniuses who domestic surveillance’s school units are designed to suppress. I would not assume any of them understand anything. and they just repeat what they see written somewhere.

Obviously they are promoting easily debunkable clear falsities, while asserting it is fact, and telling everyone you have to believe they are the final word. Vox is one of the mathematically gifted who sees it is bullshit and is calling it out – which is a great service. I am degreed in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, and I never heard this argument until Vox made it.

But people who really understand the science end up not only understanding how things work, they also understand we do not know about everything. Look at history, and theories pop up, some are wrong and get knocked down, others can be right and get knocked down, others can then come back after being debunked and turn out to be right after all, and it is all a result of the myriad of stresses we are designed to confront leading to us having umpteen backup and regulatory pathways, some almost never activated, others operating unnoticed behind far more massive pathways, and do forth.

I would not get my panties in a bunch over this argument because I have always assumed there would be other mechanisms to guide evolution, which we just do not know. Aspects of the way different atoms interact, or move, or are affected by outside variables which alter the rates of random mutations until they are not random, and those atoms tend to do things in the cytoplasm which tend to produce those structures, which work that way. There are probably mechanisms which detect high amounts of mRNA, conclude that the body needs a lot of that gene product because it is calling for large amounts of its template, and so they burn additional copies of the RNA sequence back into the DNA so more can be transxribed per time period.

When they introduced the vax, there was no way for the Spike mRNA to be retro-transcribed into the DNA. Then they found people still producing Spike years later, and it was clearly not the mRNA they were injected with.

Any biologist who attacks Vox here, I just assume is clueless, because anybody intelligent in the field knows we don’t know anywhere near everything about the mechanisms involved. To me Vox’s argument should be acknowledged and serve as an impetus to investigate why there is this disparity. It doubtless points to a Nobel-prize worthy discovery and a revolution in the understanding.

It is probably just a result of all the authorities in the nation being theater-kids from the domestic surveillance, pretending to be experts, but their side is so retarded here I almost wonder if something is being hidden there, and they are really trying to hide something else which they do not want us to know, maybe about our origins.

As it happens, I assumed that alternative evolutionary mechanisms would be one way to account for the obvious inability of the existing mechanisms to account for all of the genetic divergences observed between every pair of diverged species. Because it’s not just a chimp-human divergence that needs to be correctly accounted for, but all the other divergences from macacque to bonobo and siamang to Bornean orangutan. The mainstream models fall catastrophically short in every single case.

And I even found a new evolutionary mechanism through examining and correcting the boundaries of Kimura’s time equation. In humans, at least, relictation accounts for about half the total base pairs that natural selection does, although between them they don’t account for eight percent of the total divergence. So, I don’t think there are likely any more to discover, and even if we do, I don’t think they will account for the tens of millions of divergent base pairs.

What I find more than a little amusing is that, unlike Charles Darwin, I have managed to identify, prove, and quantify an actual evolutionary mechanism. And yet, somehow, the evolutionists still fail to celebrate and revere me.

I don’t know what the secret beneath the smokescreen is. Perhaps it’s Intelligent Genetic Manipulation. Perhaps it’s something else entirely. But I’m reasonably confident that there is something obscured by the modern evolutionary paradigm that not only contradicts, but completely overturns, our current understanding of biological history. I think that’s something that scientists should be excited about, but apparently most of them would rather keep themselves occupied with the scientific equivalent of coloring books, just using their crayons to fill in the blanks of the existing paradigm.

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Democrats in Charge

It would be impossible to be surprised to see that Republicans across the USA didn’t bother turning out to vote for the AIPAC Zionists whose only concern has proved to be war for Israel, even at the cost of the US military and the US economy.

Democrats have seized the House of Representatives and the Senate in a devastating double blow to President Trump that could mark the beginning of the end for the MAGA era. In what amounted to a political earthquake, the midterm elections saw a series of deep-red states turn blue.

In Texas, Democratic newcomer James Talarico defeated Trump-backed Republican Ken Paxton, while South Carolina elected a Democrat senator for the first time since 1998.

Most remarkably of all, Kansas sent a Democrat to the US Senate, which it had not done since 1932 during the Great Depression.

There were further stunning Democrat Senate victories in Iowa and Ohio, states Trump won by more than 10 points in the presidential election in 2024.

In one of the most-watched races left-wing Democrat Abdul El-Sayed declared victory over Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan, making him the first Muslim elected to the Senate.

Jubilant Democrats described the results as a ‘blue tsunami’ or a ‘Bluenami.’

Although he was not on the ballot, the midterms were effectively a nationwide referendum on Trump. Republicans’ crushing losses were a dagger to the heart for the White House where a vicious blame game immediately began.

The short fake Trump has successfully destroyed what the real Trump was building. Of course, it won’t be long before the Democrats demonstrate that they are even worse than the AIPAC-owned Republicans, because they are owned by AIPAC too.

I wasn’t kidding when I estimated the end of the more perfect union in 2033. There is not a political solution to this metastasized political cancer on the American people. Turning over the government to a group of foreign satanists was never going to end well.

It’s informative to see how quickly the media assumes the public will forget.

Some of the most prominent members of Donald Trump’s MAGA army, including Ben Shapiro, were despairing after Democrats took back the House and Senate in the midterm elections

That’s certainly an interesting way to describe a die-hard “Never-Trumper”. Of course, “Trump” isn’t Trump.

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By All Means, Go!

The fake Donald Trump has announced that he will go to Israel since Americans are thoroughly sick of him, his antics, and his endless wars:

If You’re Sick of Me, I’ll Go Run Israel!!! Trump Says He Will Move to Israel to Become Prime Minister If U.S. Turns on Him

Donald Trump is already eyeing his next political gig … joking he’ll pack his bags and move to Israel to become prime minister if Americans ever get sick of him. The president floated the idea during an Election Day appearance on Fox News Tuesday … claiming he’s got a whopping 99% approval rating in Israel, which apparently has him feeling pretty confident about his chances overseas.

“In fact, if people ever got tired of me in the U.S., I’ll move to Israel, become prime minister,” Trump declared. Back home, though, Trump’s not feeling quite as much love … his approval rating sits at just 32%, a far cry from the 99% he’s claiming in Israel.

Good, he absolutely should go to Israel and he should take AIPAC, the neocons, Wall Street, the mainstream media, and Hollywood with him. Then they can go and worship their false gods and fight Iran to their hearts’ content.

Just leave Americans out of it.

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