Art of Conviction

Prosecution and Certainty, on my PC

Coming to a state of certainty, or prosecuting criminality, or both at the same time.   Evokes AOC, (Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez), and lawyers, and philosophy (epistemology).   Epistemology is the study of knowledge (it’s methods, validity, and scope).   It’s a theory, and can never be a law?  Is that a fact? The difference between art and science, and the fun fusion of fields.   Psychology, does the field endorse the theory of “life is but a dream”?  Are we hallucinating reality?  Justified belief vs. opinion.  Justified text.  Rack and pinion steering.  Bee on a leaf.  Truth vs. conjecture.  Internal model of reality vs. actual fact.  Delusional and “crazy” vs. sanity (degrees of, who is the MOST sane, or, stated alternatively, LEAST INsane).  Conviction and convicts and cons and eviction and fiction and eve and evening and getting even and seven!  Biblical babble and atheist acing of text!  True religion and sacrilege.  God, devil, angels, demons, and truth, subjectivity, law, virtue, heaven and paradise, hell and death, infinity, private universes, shambala and enlightened society, virtual worlds, fact and fiction, possibility and potential, and Reality.  Happy happy, joy joy.  Let there be light, let there be levity (a subject of utmost gravity).   Let there be letters.   Word to your mother, dawg.

Methods:  Repetition, reinforcement, other minds, scientific openness to falsification, quantification, permission of uncertainty and alternative explanation(s), and wisdom of crowds (better, usually, than the opinion of the smartest person?)

Validity: A ranking of explanations?  Most valid to least likely?  Conviction with viction! lol

Possibility of evolution, change, from past to present, present to future, end of time or eternity (always and everywhere?)

Scope:  not just a mouthwash.  Not just military hardware.  Not just a rangefinder, or rifle sight.  Extent of validity, different times, different places, peoples and cultures, humans and aliens, actual and theoretical.

Art of Arturo/Arthur.  Actual fact and ack ack.  External and eternal.  Viction?   Victims and victuals!  Vicki and Tim.  chew'lls and chools and schools!  food/fda/fad.   Hypnotism, movies, art of persuasion, morpheus the god of dreams.  Also, maybe the final word on conviction is papal infallibility, when he speaks ex officio, on f.m. (faith/morals).   Right? (write, rite).  

That’s my riff.   Hit back with convict-chin :-)   (title/topic, suggested by friend Kate)