0216 For the situation level of the post-truth interscope, the actuality_2b is psychometric valuation. If anything, psychometric valuations_2b should be intelligible, because an empirio-schematic judgment unfolds into the situation level.

The empirio-schematic judgment goes like this.

Disciplinary language (relation, thirdness) brings mathematical and mechanical models (what ought to be, secondness) into relation with observations and measurements of phenomena (what is, firstness).

The empirio-schematic judgment unfolds into the situation-level nested form.

0217 So, what relation (thirdness) brings the intelligibility of expert-determined valuations (what ought to be, secondness) into relation with the universality of phenomena (what is, firstness)?

In the Positivist’s judgment, the relation is the positivist intellect.  The positivist intellect has a rule.  Metaphysics is not allowed.

Perhaps, I can replace the positivist intellect with another label, “the scientismist intellect”, who is at the service of the one of scientism_3c.

0218 Here is the result.

0219 May I still call this perspective-level actuality_2c “the empirio-normative judgment”?

I suppose so.

At this juncture, the perspective level actuality_2c of what ought to be for the Positivist’s judgment shifts into what the Positivist’s judgment ought to be, in order for the psychometric sciences_2b to occupy the situation level.

Is that how the one of scientism_3c defines success_2c?

That’s not all.

Here is a picture for the general operation of the interventional sign-relation.

An interventional sign-vehicle (SV_i) stands for an interventional sign-object (SO_i) in regards to an interventional sign-interpretant (SI_i).

0220 Connecting all the dots, the empirio-normative judgment_2c (SV_i) projects the intelligibility of the results of the psychometric sciences_2b as what ought to be into people’s intellects_3a and wills_1a (SI_i) and expects to harvest what people say_2a (SO_i) as a universal what is.

If these connections are plausible, then the one of scientism_3c attempts to exploit the evolutionarily ancient character of the interventional sign relation in order to achieve contemporary domination of its subject populations.