The Natural Law Institute

Month: July 2015

  • The Free Market is a Fiat Construct, Produced by Organized Violence

    [T]he free market itself is a fiat construct. Just as property rights are a fiat construct. Morality, Property, and Free Markets require forcible imposition. The condition of primitive man is one of overlapping rents. Paternalism, Non-kin-Morality, Property and Trade were institutional innovations all of which required the organized application of violence to construct. Neither violence…

  • ECONOMICS OF CONCURRENCY

    [C]oncurrency – e.g. multitasking – is hard, we all know that. In the following post I analyze the economics of concurrency, using the example of a layered conversation with two members, and many concurrent threads occurring in overlapping time intervals. (If you would think it a fun exercise, write up a comment about another topic…

  • What is the Minimum Basis for the Law Necessary for Sovereignty, Liberty, and Freedom?

    (revised and expanded)(worth repeating) (from 2014) THE PROBLEM IS LAW NOT BELIEF [I]t’s true that aggression is immoral, and it’s true that for people to rationally cooperate aggression must be illegal. But this is a deceptively incomplete statement, because we all intuit that aggression is a bad thing, but we almost all differ in what one can…

  • Universal Grammars of Action and Experience

    [I] think that any set of symbols in any form, capable of reconstructing the requisite experience of reality allows for some degree of truth communication between humans, superhumans, human-made-machines, and if they exist, aliens capable of action and communication. I have a hard time imagining that a basic instruction set is not accessible to any…

  • Man Creates Truth

    [M]AN CREATES TRUTH. TRUTH MUST BE SPOKEN. ALL ELSE IS JUST EXISTENCE. You see, the statement ‘full of truth’ is an existentially impossible statement. The universe exists. Truth must be stated. Error, bias, imagination, wishful thinking,  and deception can be removed from our utterances. I use the term “Truthful” for warrantied speech. It is not…

  • Can The Truth Be A Commons? 

    (Interesting) —“Truth telling is commons, but truth is not commons?”— [L]et me state this clearly: “The act of habituating truth-telling as both a normative behavior and skill is an expensive normative commons (asset) for a population to construct.” 1) How does truth telling exist? The commons of truth telling exists as both demonstrated habit, and…

  • Language, Like Genes and Traditions….

    [T]he Good, the useless and the bad. —“But my experience is that language, like traditions, and genes, grows to contain useful, useless, and damaging content.”— Curt Source: Curt Doolittle

  • Operationalism is a Means of Falsification

     [A] criticism from Bruce, on my failure to make clear that Operationalism is a means of conducting a test of falsification. –“This monotheistic passion for reduction to operations seems to lead to cul-de-sacs.”— Bruce Caithness Bruce, 1) Operationalism is an attempt at falsification. Just as in math, if we can construct a statement through operations…