About the Calibration Method

The modern division of philosophy into theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy has its origin in Aristotle's categories of natural philosophy and moral philosophy. The one has theory for its object, and the other practice. Theoretical philosophy deals with abstract concepts such as knowledge, math, mid, language and logic. Practical philosophy deals with physical concepts such as politics, decisions, ethics and aesthetics. Babelian philosophy is the application of theoretical philosophy to real life concerns.

Babeliro is the result of this hands on Babelian philosophy. Taking a theoretical approach to languages based on Philosophy of Language, Logic and Philosophy of Mind, combined with the MU, the Theory of Virtue and Swarmetic Theory in real life, it is possible to create a spoken language that resembles a purely logical language. As the language becomes a reality, these abstract theories create a channel to find the true practical meaning of language. This process implies a two side approximation first from the essence towards the knowledge to identify the implied logic in every language, followed by a calibration process from knowledge to essence. It is a process that needs to be repeated with high intensity.

This process is what I call the Calibration Method: Start from abstract ideas and connect them to reality through logical reasoning and by repeatedly reassessing how abstract truth fits reality. It is important to start with an empty concept and be willing to accept and disregard ideas thoughtfully. Then build up the concept by intense exposure to the leading knowledge on the field, but always being very sceptic on fixing any ideas not based on logic.

For example to build Babeliro, I researched about language philosophy and linguistics from this and other (audible) books:

• The Story of Human Language by John McWhorter (2004)

• The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker (1994)

• How Language Began by Daniel Everett (2019)

• Becoming Human by Michael Tomasello (2019)

• The Minimalist Program by Noam Chomsky (1996)

• Educating Eve by Geoffrey Sampson (1997)

Research is helpful but to achieve progress it is necessary to apply genius. Talent is achieving what is beyond other people's capacity, genius is achieving what is beyond other people's imagination. The objective of the Calibration Method is to create genius by high acceptance of failure, by rejection of any not-abstract knowledge (i.e. beliefs vs understanding) and by connecting abstract ideas with not-abstract reality from essence to knowledge (i.e. not from knowledge to essence). In practice, this means Babeliro is divided in two languages: BABELIRO shows the essence of logical grammar, BABELARO shows the application of this logic by resembling a human language. Then Babeliro is built from idea to word and tested from word to idea, but the essence (BABELIRO) gives the structure and the human language (BABELARO) is only the laboratory.

The original idea of Babeliro started on 3rd September 2024, by writing down the philosophical reason to build a this language based on logic and the first few words. At this time, there was no clear idea of the logical grammar but the thought that language is connected through a logic like the one of the Theory of Virtue. Then started a process of word classification to try to understand how they all connect with each other using logical connections. The original thought came from something similar to the Babelian flag. From there I could extract the main prepositions (XEN, PAS, DUS and KON) and the main roots (MENT-, TANT-, FLUS- and TROL-). I had understood how logic of the moods, although I believed moods to be verbs and only much later, through the Calibration Method, I eventually understood they are moods. Through this table, I understood that prepositions are formed through similar logic, by knowledge of those spacial, temporal and basic roots to form the spacial, temporal and basic prepositions respectively.

First understanding the essential logic of an abstract concept, then identifying how each of those concepts connects to our human languages. The logic will eventually reject all incorrect connections, after thinking about critically. In the example of Babeliro, it is useful to write ideas, translate texts and read using the language because those incorrect connections become obvious. This is not a language which I create, it is rather a language that I am discovering, translating and translating through this Calibration Method. This method is shamelessly prone to mistakes, so be careful when reading Babeliro at this creational stage.

Babeliro is the language of a child who was never taught to speak and can learn it through abstraction only. That language is more intuitive in people with tendency to learn by understanding rather than by memory. This logic, as all, is like mathematics in that everyone is capable to understand its basics and even without explanation; and, like mathematics, it's not the same understanding it than memorising it. Basically everyone can learn to talk properly their native language, but not everyone can learn to think what they talk. Thus the logical grammar of Babeliro, BABELIRO, is a form of universal logic and the the human language expression, BABELARO, is a form of art because it tries to represent abstract perfection in it's closest essence. Every language is indeed the same form of art but, in the case of vernacular languages, it is collective art of the clumsiest kind. Babeliro instead is a language created with the intention to connect abstract logic to human language, but this one is created by a single artist. As poorly as I explain it, this Calibration Method is a very useful tool to create temporary genius mentality on languages or other matters.

Note: Beautiful explanation of "genius" in Schopenhauer's WWV, chapter 36