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Mikachusetts: "It seems self evident that a necessary result of lying ( A ) is that you are being dishonest ( B ). A necesary result of stealing ( A ) is that you are taking that which doesn't belong to you ( B ). A necessary result of coercing ( A ) is that you are being unjust ( B ). "I'm assuming that these aren't the kinds
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FlyingAxe: You've stated the problem excellently. This is the fundamental problem of libertarian ethics. The problem must be solved by praxeology in the following general way. The fundamental thesis of praxeology is that actions have consequences that are apodictically certain: If I do X , then Y must necessarily happen. The theoretical problem
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The Fundamental Right of Secession Jeffrey Tucker · October 13, 2012 What is the world’s smallest country? Monaco? Nope. Malta? Too big. Even Vatican City with a mere population of 770 is huge in comparison. It’s called Sealand, founded and ruled by Paddy Roy Bates, a remarkable man who died this week at the age of 91. He was the
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Hi Geurt I don't think there is universal agreement on the relationship between these. The Rotbardian explanation is different from the Misesian. What I have argued is that in Mises's conception praxeology is conceived as a general, formal science of all forms, or classes, or types, of human action (all types of goal-directed activity). Praxeology
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Fool on the Hill: Here is what you linked to: Practical reason is the general human capacity for resolving, through reflection, the question of what one is to do. Deliberation of this kind is practical in at least two senses. First, it is practical in its subject matter, insofar as it is concerned with action. But it is also practical in its consequences
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Hi Graham OK I think I can explain the difference. Here is what you wrote above: Let's take an example of an action - the one you brought up before: a guy using a vending machine. I (the observer) watch Bob drop a coin into the machine, press a button, and then the coin drops and a bottle of coke comes out. How can I make sense of what has just
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The notion of empiricism or ‘empirics’ has come to the fore again as a result of George A. Selgin’s recent article. http://www.cato-unbound.org/2012/09/10/george-a-selgin/how-austrian-is-it/ An important question concerns the apparent aversion praxeologists have toward empiricism. This post addresses empiricism from the praxeological
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There are two things I think Bernanke may be accomplishing with further stimulus, and neither of these things is getting much press. If during the inflationary quantitative easing, wage increases lag behind commodity and product price increases, Bernanke is lowering the cost of labor by lowering wage rates relative to the price of the products companies
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Hi Graham As I've been maintaining, and as I'll repeat. You are talking about physics. You want to study "purposes" as things that exist out there in nature, like behind a tree or inside that car over there. You are implying that "purposes" have locations and move about from place to place. So you want to consider them as
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Hi Graham In my opinion you want to talk about physics. When you ask for an example of an action that has no effect on the market , I believe you are speaking in terms of physical effects. You are asking for an account in material terms. Regarding the effect that an electron would have on a game of billiards, an author on mathematics and physics writes