The Rational Apprentice Podcast

When we assume we are discussing such things like “My Body, My Choice” only to find out later that we were really discussing “My Body, YOUR choice,” well, we wind up with problems.

Precision is required in a science—a universal language devoid of ambiguity, confusion, and interpretation.

In this third episode of The Rational Apprentice Podcast, we read a fantastic paper by Richard Boren discussing the definition of the word “coercion”.

This is our first foray into the nature of meaning and the construction of Operational Definitions.

Imagine walking into a room of a thousand people. You're looking for one specific person but you don't know their name, whether they are male or female, what they look like, or what they are wearing. What do you think the odds are of you finding this person in a room of a thousand? 

Now imagine that you are fighting for freedom in your society. What do you think the odds are that you will attain freedom if those in your society do not agree on what freedom means, what it looks like, how to measure it, and how to attain it?

In this second episode of The Rational Apprentice Podcast, we discuss the concept of Semantic Precision, the first, essential tool we must use in order to both isolate the root cause of our societal problems and identify those factors which have been so successful in the natural sciences—and apply them to society.

What are a few of the problems we face today?

Insufficient food and energy supply, race riots, continually creeping taxation, inadequate transportation, overpopulation, skyrocketing inflation, never-ending war, increasing crime, inadequate education, increasing unemployment, increasing pollution, Cancer, AIDS, and other diseases, political corruption and scandal. The list goes on and on.

Time passes and technology evolves but these are exactly the same problems that have been plaguing society for thousands of years. Yet, is there any record that these principle, these most fundamental problems have ever been solved, at any time, in history? Is it possible that our method of solving societal problems could be, in some way, defective?

Join us for the first episode of The Rational Apprentice Podcast where we begin the process of isolating the SINGLE root cause of all of humanity's problems. The solution is attainable, but the root cause must be precisely identified—and that’s where the scientific method comes in.