(getting very close now) he Question: How do we warranty that we speak the truth, given any subset of properties of reality? Testimonial truth is a promise, a warranty. But a warranty of what? All knowledge is theoretical; and all …
ere is where I end up. And it hasn’t changed much in two years. 1) Trademarking.Yes. It’s a weight and measure. And it’s testable. Violating trademarks is fraudulent. 2) Copyrighting.Possibly – but only if under the model of the creative …
he Question: How do we warranty that we speak the truth, given any subset of properties of reality? Testimonial truth is a promise, a warranty. But a warranty of what? All knowledge is theoretical; and all non-tautological, non-trivial premises and …
(very important) he value of philosophy is to convert what we learn, into the web (network) of related concepts that we currently USE. (Note that I do not use the word ‘believe’, which is a synonym for justification.) This often …
POPPER, HAYEK, HOPPE, BROUWER, BRIDGMAN, POINCARÉ – The` Least Wrong Philosophers. ragging Germans and Cosmopolitans out of the well of authoritarianism. For my purposes, Popper and Hayek are just the best thinkers to build upon, because they’re the least wrong. …
ruth. This word can be translated as the “mind of God”. Because this word is used as if referring to the mind of God. But, this use is a deception in and of itself. There exists no mind to discover, …
MISES POSITION IN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY? (reposted from elsewhere) (I think this will blow your mind a little bit.) Mises Human Action as Cosmopolitan Stoicism. e was almost right. If Rothbard and the Rothbardians had not damaged his legacy so severely, …
1) Acquisitiveness: To survive and reproduce, humans must acquire and inventory many categories of resources, and evolved to demonstrate constant acquisitiveness of those resources. 2) Property: The scope of those things they act upon, or choose not to act upon, …
(a central concept of Propertarianism) f Haidt’s evolutionary origins of moral intuitions, three can be expressed as individual property rights: 1. Care/harm for others, protecting them from harm. (The asset of life and body.) 2. Proportionality/cheating, Justice, treating others in …
(worth repeating) he central proposition of neo-reaction is that the enlightenment was dangerously optimistic about humans, human nature, and the state; and that as a consequence, society is just as religious as ever it was, with an official state religion …
(the central argument)( profound) he central argument regarding truth: 1) … is that giving witness to one’s observations, is testable by reproduction of a set of operational definitions. That operational definitions produce the equivalent of names, just as positional numbering …
(important)(profound) have been working to reform anarcho capitalist arguments by translating them from troublesome Kantian rationalism, into the transparent common language of science: ratio-empiricism. And, at least for the past few months, I’ve been struggling to develop a narrative structure …
(important)(profound) have been working to reform anarcho capitalist arguments by translating them from troublesome Kantian rationalism, into the transparent common language of science: ratio-empiricism. And, at least for the past few months, I’ve been struggling to develop a narrative structure …
(intellectual arms dealing) (retaking the brand of liberty from the lunatic fringe) othbardians are relying upon and spreading numerous fallacies: (a) the fallacy of the NAP/IVP as the moral and legal basis for an anarchic polity, (b) the fallacy of …
“Hayek’s work composes a system of ideas, fully as ambitious as the systems of Mill and Marx, but far less vulnerable to criticism than theirs because it is grounded on a philosophically defensible view of the scope and limits of …