Validating Ideas
Improving Your Ability to Think Independently
The world is awash with information: which ideas are valid, which are false? Accusations of “fake news” fly from both sides of nearly every important issue. But what can we do?
Validating Ideas explains how an emerging science of knowledge (also called epistemology) can be used to systematically assess the validity of any concept, including those in the humanities, and demonstrates this by showing the general invalidity of Marxist theory, invalid concepts from passages in Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged, and other examples.
An early review…
“This remarkable book reveals a new paradigm of thinking and sets out a simple, mental methodology that can be learned and used many times every day to great advantage by the reader in all aspects of life.
“The ‘hard sciences’ like physics and mathematics have long had an unfair advantage over the humanities. The prevailing lack of scientific thinking in modern-day humanities has seen the disciplines of modern philosophy, psychology, history and politics veer seriously away from the intellectual challenges that rightfully should be applied to them.
“The revolutionary principles explained in Mr Alexanderman’s book, if applied by humanities academics, would help them restore their lost credibility and ultimately allow their disciplines to be elevated and seen as true sciences. In reality, it seems doubtful that this would actually appeal to those professors and students that have thrived in an environment where any postulate is given equal value to any other, whether valid or not.
“The book gives a few examples of how to apply the new paradigm of thinking to contemporary issues, and show how accepted ideas are in fact built on sand.
“The value of this book vastly exceeds its price by many orders of magnitude. It will be potentially life changing for most readers who grasp the importance of validating ideas and postulates for themselves instead of relying on consensus opinions or ‘fake media’. This book is a definite must-read.”
P. Kristensen, Perth, Australia
Author Kevin Alexanderman spent more than a decade to develop a broad-based new theory of knowledge for AI (Artificial Intelligence) software purposes. This historically distinct epistemological theory includes new theories of deduction (reasoning), induction (concept forming), lexicology (meaning), concepts (grammar) and importantly, validation (scientific method).
Three of these theories, deduction, concepts and lexicology, were confirmed as valid, emerging science by demonstrating their efficacy in commercial software sold to many Global 200 firms.
Validation is the subject mental tool in this ground-breaking, hugely important book, because it explains and demonstrates how all ideas can be assessed by comparison with their perceptual origins, in a straight-forward, systematic manner.
If you want to think soundly, and have the capacity to depend upon your own judgement, rather than having to follow the crowd, then Validating Ideas is critically important for your happiness, success and well-being.