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The ‘Tells’ Of Continental, Cosmopolitan And Enlightenment Arguments
(important) [T]he signature property (the ‘tell’) of continental argument is conflation, in which the purpose of argument is an attempt to construct authority. (German and French) Signature property (the ‘tell’) of cosmopolitan thought is ‘the prestige’ (distraction), in which the purpose of an argument is to distract from the central, more obvious one by means…
The Attestation Theory Of Truth
[I] supposed I should state this clearly, and probably write a little history of Truth in order to get across why we tend to use Platonic truth. But I’ll have to get to that in my chapter on Truth. If we require, as does science, that we reduce all statements to operational language, then what…
Observations and Apologies
(I’m slow. Painfully diligent and slow. I frustrate people around me when working on a theory. But I seem to pretty much always get there. It was a great day today. I’m confident that I will succeed in reforming or delegitimizing both misesian pseudoscience and rothbardian parasitic ethics. I can see it all working now.…
The End Of Praxeology As A Pseudoscience
[P]roofs are properties of axiomatic systems. Axiomatic arguments are complete by definition. Proof and completeness are why axiomatic systems merely state internal consistency not external correspondence. As such axiomatic systems allow us to construct proofs – not truths. One cannot prove a theory, only falsify it. A theory corresponds with reality, but is forever incomplete,…
CRANKISH? Rationalist Pseudoscience Like Praxeology is Crankish. Science and Logic are Parsimonious.
WHICH IS MORE CRANKISH? SIMPLE SCIENCE AND LOGIC, OR RATIONALIST PSEUDOSCIENCE? I am pretty confident that the praxeological line of reasoning, as currently constructed, is a dead end, as I’ve argued elsewhere. In no small part because it cannot compete with the universality of the language and processes of the ratio-scientific method. But while an…
More On The Axiomatic (consistent) Vs Theoretic (correspondent)
[A]xiomatic vs Theoretic 1 – axiomatic (independent of action and observation) versus theoretic (action and observation) a) Axiomatic systems allow us to make statements independent of any correspondence with reality. b) Theoretical systems require us to make statements dependent upon correspondence with reality. c) It is universally possible to create axiomatic systems by copying theoretical…
If Mises Is A Kantian Should We Convict Him Of Conspiracy Too?
[I]nnovations are good. Better innovations are better. And, yes, Mises made an innovation, but the expository and explanatory power of the deductive and axiomatic method is LESS than the expository and explanatory power of the ratio-empirical method – not more. Congratulating Mises on improving Kant, who was probably the single greatest contributor to philosophical obscurantism…
Logic vs Science
(on praxeology) (getting closer) (attestation theory of truth) [S]o, if the defining property of the discipline of science is observation, and praxeology is purely deductive independent of observation, then how can praxeology honestly be termed a science? It cannot. Praxeology can be defined as a logic, but not a science. Formal Logic and mathematics are…
Profound Propertarian Insight
[E]nlightenment Political and economic ethics, whether under classical liberal, libertarian, socialist and ‘dishonest socialist (keynesian)’ theory are predicated on the two assumptions (a)that moral and ethical behavior are ‘givens’ that we must agree upon, and that (b) our labors in the act of production are the means by which we earn rewards. This logic assumes…
Constructive Logic: A Sequence Of Human Actions : The Only Moral Logic
[T]his is where I’ve ended up thanks to Constructive Mathematics (Intuitionism, Intuitional Mathematics, Neointuitionism). Logic: I apply the same requirement of operational language (strict construction) to logic – the logic of language. Of all the logics, the logic of language is the most misleading. I have the most work to do here. Much to the…
Adding Kant To History's Most Destructive Minds
[I]‘m going to add Kant (obscurant anti-realism), to the ranks of history’s most destructive minds: Cantor(obscurant Pseudoscience), Freud(obscurant pseudoscience), Marx(pseudoscience), Napoleon (total war), Constantine(christianization of Europe), Plato (the Republic), Abraham(monotheism), Zoroaster (divine scripture). Intellectual Sainthood – Aristotle – Machiavelli – Bacon, Newton and Leibniz – Smith, Hume and Jefferson – Jevons, Menger, Walras, Marshall, Böhm-Bawerk,…
Adding Kant To History’s Most Destructive Minds
[I]‘m going to add Kant (obscurant anti-realism), to the ranks of history’s most destructive minds: Cantor(obscurant Pseudoscience), Freud(obscurant pseudoscience), Marx(pseudoscience), Napoleon (total war), Constantine(christianization of Europe), Plato (the Republic), Abraham(monotheism), Zoroaster (divine scripture). Intellectual Sainthood – Aristotle – Machiavelli – Bacon, Newton and Leibniz – Smith, Hume and Jefferson – Jevons, Menger, Walras, Marshall, Böhm-Bawerk,…
Philosophical Matchsticks
[P]hilosophy is too much like giving children matches to play with. And as Durant said, there are really no answers there. History is the only evidence of the nature of man, and the answers to our political nature are there. Philosophy is, at best, just a tool that helps us reduce our ever-present tendency to…
Burning Obscurant And Platonic Philosophy On The Pyre Of Deception
[M]ost of my attacks on a priorism are tests to see if the delta in utility between ratio-empirical and ‘Real’, and aprioristic-deductive and platonic, is sufficient to compel a change in method, but I am clearly dealing with very habituated people, and not giving them enough of a breadcrumb trail. And worse, I’m leading them…
The Central Problem Of Violence In Human Societies? Or The Central Problem Of Free Riding?
–“The absence of a workable integrated theory of economics and politics reflects the lack of systematic thinking about the central problem of violence in human societies.”– Violence and Social Orders (Preface). [T]he fundamental problem of cooperation is the suppression of free riding. Violence is but one of the many tools used by free riders. Our…
How Much Longer Will You Trust Your Liberty To Your Fellow Man?
–“Rights” are the terms in which the weak couch their desire for a liberty they have not the might to secure.”–Eli Harman [Y]our fellow men and women do not desire liberty. They desires consumption, status, and ease. Liberty requires great expense, revolt against the masses, and constant diligence. The source of liberty is the organize…
The Central Object Of The Anarchic Research Program
[T]he central objective of the anarcho capitalist research program has been how to eliminate the monopoly bureaucracy and its institutionalize parasitism on the population, yet still produce a prosperous social order. In libertarian circles we often refer to this simply as “the problem of social order.” THE CENTRAL THEORY Like marxism, libertarian philosophy is pretty…
Why Do Property Rights "Work"?
[P]roperty rights ‘work’ because they establish a monopoly of control over fragments of the physical world, and without that monopoly of control it’s impossible to both plan their use and possess the incentive to act in accordance with plan. All creatures demonstrate some concept of possession or property. (See Butler Schaeffer). Without property rights, a…
Why Do Property Rights “Work”?
[P]roperty rights ‘work’ because they establish a monopoly of control over fragments of the physical world, and without that monopoly of control it’s impossible to both plan their use and possess the incentive to act in accordance with plan. All creatures demonstrate some concept of possession or property. (See Butler Schaeffer). Without property rights, a…
The End Of The Fantasy Of International Law
—“American might allowed the advocates of international law to live in an imaginary world in which their doctrines actually matter. And now that they have finally succeeded in tearing down American strength and ushering in a post-American world, their own world will end. International law is a Potemkin village. A hollow facade upheld by the…