Definitions: Capitalism, Mixed Economy, and Socialism: A Eugenic vs Dysgenic Game
RIGHT: Capitalism: the voluntary organization of production as a the result of the incentives that result from the anarchic evolution of money, prices, exchanges and contracts under the single principle, norm, regulation or law of the voluntary exchange of private property. This process is naturally meritocratic and eugenic and therefore scientific, which is the reason…
Definitions: Calculable, Computational, Rational, Irrational, Arational, and “Black Box”
(draft) (learning propertarianism) [T]he subtle differences in terms of comparison. DEFINITIONS: CALCULATIVE (HYPOTHETICAL) vs COMPUTATIONAL(DETERMINISTIC) – A process is CALCULATIVE if human beings are required to perform it, and COMPUTATIONAL if (current) computers can perform it. CALCULATIVE INSTITUTIONS – The set of technologies that permit human beings to extend their perception and comparison ability, and…
A Hierarchy of Argumentative Structures
(useful) (learning propertarianism) [T]he next ten arguments you make, try to determine which form of argument the person is relying upon. (Not with me. I have enough to do. Test your cunning elsewhere.) If you do this a few times you will begin to intuit it in every argument. 1) EXPRESSIVE (emotional): a type of…
First Principles of Propertarian Ethics: Non-Parasitism and Therefore Rational Cooperation
(revised and expanded)(worth repeating) [P]ropertarian Ethics: -1 — Time is limited and the only infinite scarcity 0 — Man is a costly form of life in an unpredictable universe. 1 – Man must acquire resources to live within this unpredictable universe. 2 – Man must act to acquire and inventory resources: 3 — Man must defend…
Definition: Capitalism Refers to a Bias within Government, Not a System of Government.
[A] couple of thoughts for you: GOVERNMENT Is an organization for the purpose of producing commons. In practice that may mean Commons for a few. In practice that may mean Commons for some. In practice that may mean Commons for all. PRODUCTION Capitalism isn’t a form of government. It’s often inarticulately referred to as an…
Definition of Class: Reproductive Value
(profound) (complete decidability) (objective morality) [S]ocial class refers a rough division of humans into a distribution by their reproductive value. There is a competition between the classes, as there is a competition between all living organisms – and there must be for evolution continue and the species to persist. The competition between the classes is…
Definitions: Truth, Truthfulness, and Honesty
[D]EFINITIONS OF TRUTH. TAUTOLOGICAL TRUTH: That testimony you give when you promising the equality of two statements using different terms: A circular definition, a statement of equality or a statement of identity. ANALYTIC TRUTH: The testimony you give promising the internal consistency of one or more statements used in the construction of a proof in an axiomatic(declarative)…
A Definition of Economics?
QUESTION: CURT: WHAT IS YOUR DEFINITION OF ‘ECONOMICS’?” (good piece) —“Hi Curt…I can relate to your comments. Perhaps you mentioned it and I missed it, but what in your definition of “Economics”. Is it sociological? A physical science? Something else?”—Lee Roesner [L]ee, Great question. Thanks. I think, that the scope of the term Economics is…
Operationalism: From Law Through Mathematics
(cerebral)(interesting) [I] hope that this spectrum: law, economics, assists us in understanding the position of praxeology in the list of moral constraints that require operational and intuitionistic tests of propositions, prior to making truth claims. LAW: STRICT CONSTRUCTION Strict Construction is an abused term where the courts instead use the terms Textualism and Original Intent.…
Definition: “Ghetto Ethics”
[G]hetto Ethics: quite literally, the ethics of the medieval urban ghetto. As a ‘state within a state’ residents of the ghetto can conduct exchange as if they are state actors by relying upon high trust exchange in-group, while using low trust exchange out-group. However, in any polity, each of us cannot act as a ‘state’…
Definition: "Ghetto Ethics"
[G]hetto Ethics: quite literally, the ethics of the medieval urban ghetto. As a ‘state within a state’ residents of the ghetto can conduct exchange as if they are state actors by relying upon high trust exchange in-group, while using low trust exchange out-group. However, in any polity, each of us cannot act as a ‘state’…
Trust: A Definition
“Your confidence that another will act with a necessary degree of reciprocity (mutually beneficial) for the matter at hand, despite the opportunity to act out of an equal degree of self interest.” This definition addresses the spectrum of low trust exchanges to consanguineous interactions to high trust mutual insurance. Most definitions assume an equality of…
An Operational Definition of “Meaning”
Meaning: the experience produced by the interaction between memory and stimuli caused by human action in time. This definition survives criticism even if the action is purely passive observation. All symbols for meaning are constructed from some set of analogies to experience. These constructs evolve through repetition and loading, until their constituent causal relations…
An Operational Definition of "Meaning"
Meaning: the experience produced by the interaction between memory and stimuli caused by human action in time. This definition survives criticism even if the action is purely passive observation. All symbols for meaning are constructed from some set of analogies to experience. These constructs evolve through repetition and loading, until their constituent causal relations…
Propertarian Definition: REVOLUTION
1) SOCIETY: A society is an organization. It is an organization of people by norms, using exclusion from, and inclusion in, opportunities to gain adherence to norms. 2) GOVERNMENT: A government is an organization. it is an organization of people who make decisions over the use of property using a bureaucracy that operates by rules,…
A Definition Of HBD Human Bio Diversity (At The Request Of HBD Chick.)
DEFINITION OF HBD: THAT RESEARCH PROGRAM WE CALL “HUMAN BIO DIVERSITY” HUMAN BIO-DIVERSITY: “The study of heritable human genetic differences and the variation in distribution of those differences within human populations that show affinity for one another. And where those affinities express themselves as political, social, familial, and personal institutions, behaviors, abilities and preferences. And…
The Complete Definition Of Property: An Excerpt from Propertarianism
[P]ropertarianism differs from Libertarianism by: 1) First, Propertarianism argues that the principle of involuntary transfer – a prohibition on not only fraud theft and violence — but also involuntary transfer in all its forms, including “cheating”, or privatization of the commons, is the boundary that determines ethical use of property, because it is how humans…
The Common Law vs Fiat Law – Definitions and Expositions
Today, someone, in an obscure little news group, expressed his libertarian sentiments by saying: “Common law is good enough for all: You must not cause harm, damage or loss, infringe on the rights of others or use mischief in business. To be accused you must have a flesh and blood accuser who can provide proof…
A Definition Of Morality
In taking a survey on liberal and conservative morality, I came across a question that asked me to define morality, and gave it an answer that I thought I would share here as part of my ongoing effort to provide conservatives with a framework for rational debate, rather than watch them continue their reliance upon…
A Subtle Redefinition In Opportunity Cost
I am going to redefine Opportunity Cost from the difference between one choice and another, to include the opportunity of expending violence. Because that is the FIRST cost that they pay in every transaction. I’m going to redefine Time preference from the silly Austrian implication that all purchasing decisions are made primarily by price, to…
