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the following concerns a problem I'm working on for a course I am taking. The basic question is whether the idea of non-precisive abstractions is still useful when we apply it to events over time in the form of counterfactual comparison. The main reason that it may not be useful would be that it...
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Thanks for asking questions <rayendra> I respond, unfortunatly most of the time no matter how tired or drunk, etc's I am. Mostly I'm lookin' for any folks willing to actually argue for real. A. (I hope you know the ass-u-me joke) First when you think of regulation, be reminded that...
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Is Praxeology synonymous to Methodological Individualism? Praxeology is the science of human action. Methodological Individualism is a philosophical method aimed at explaining and understanding broad society-wide developments as the aggregation of decisions by individuals. They both have to do with understanding...
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Is abstraction necessarily purposeful behavior? Alfred Korzybski (General Semantics) takes the view that the process by which any organism's nervous system produces a sense perception of the "outside world" is abstraction. The abstraction is a neurological consequence of the limiting physiological...
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I would like to announce that I have just completed work on my most recent book: Striving and Attainment - A Theory of Social Interaction. I have posted it in Word document form on my web sites adamknott.com and praxeology.com In the book, I present the theory of ethics which I have been developing as...
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Welcome to the forum Sam and thanks for the interesting thread. [quote user="Sam"]The following are ideas I have read about, rather than my position. I do think they merit consideration, but I haven't reached a conclusion yet. (I just thought I'd clear that up so I don't get labelled...
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Greetings. A new audio essay is now available in The Rational Argumentator's Audio Section : http://progressofliberty.today.com/tra-audio/ “ Praxeology and Understanding: An Analysis of the Controversy in Austrian Economics ” by George A. Selgin; Read by G. Stolyarov II Special thanks...
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Greetings. A new free audio essay is now available: “ Realism and Abstraction in Economics: Aristotle and Mises versus Friedman ” by Roderick T. Long. You can listen to and download it at http://progressofliberty.today.com/tra-audio/long-realism-abstraction/ I hope that you will enjoy it...
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Greetings. A new free audio essay is now available: Ludwig von Mises’s “ Social Science and Natural Science ” (1942), which you can listen to and download here: http://progressofliberty.today.com/tra-audio/mises-mmmp1/ It has also been linked in The Rational Argumentator’s Audio...
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Before we'd simply jump to the conclusion that it's a factor of how much the state leaves the economy alone, there are few things to consider. First, laws don't come out of thin air, it's rooted in the culture how strongly people demand Libertarian laws. Second, freedom in the Libertarian...