December 2011
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Praxeology and Economic Science
Praxeology says that all economic propositions which claim to be true must be shown to be deducible by means of formal logic from the incontestably true material knowledge regarding the meaning of action. Specifically, all economic reasoning consists of the following:
an understanding of the categories of action and the meaning of a change occurring in such things as values, preferences,...
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a response to: "I posted this on the Libertarian...
lepus:
“I’ve noticed this in some of the younger libertarian folks online. Unless you have every box checked on this imagined “libertarian” checklist, you are labeled a “statist” or a “closet republican”. Honestly, a group that prides itself on freedom and individual rights SHOULD (in my view) have a broader sense of what being a “libertarian” is, since there are left and right leaning...
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“Now, it is certainly correct that a market presupposes the recognition and...”
– Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Fallacies of the Public Goods Theory and the Production of Security
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CNN talks to Ron Paul about the Newsletters
CNN 'reporter': Dr. Paul, have you stopped beating your wife?
Ron Paul: I never beat my wife.
CNN 'reporter': Dr. Paul, do you advocate wife beating?
Ron Paul: No, I don't.
CNN 'reporter': Dr. Paul, are you going to deny wife beating?
Ron Paul: I don't deny anything. I don't beat my wife. I don't advocate wife beating.
CNN 'reporter': Dr. Paul, who advocates wife beating?
Ron Paul: I don't know, but it's not me.
CNN 'reporter': Dr. Paul, have you stopped beating your wife?
Ron Paul: I don't beat my wife. Your network asked me about it yesterday. Why don't you just replay the answers from yesterday?
CNN 'reporter': Dr. Paul, are you going to deny wife beating with metal clothes hangers?
Ron Paul: Huh?
CNN 'reporter': How do you beat your wife?
Ron Paul: I don't.
CNN 'reporter': Dr. Paul, have you stopped beating your wife?
Ron Paul: Sorry Gloria, I gotta go do something useful. Bye.
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Merry Holidays!
I wanted to send some sort of holiday greeting to my friends and colleagues, but it is difficult these days to know exactly what to say without offending someone. So I met with my solicitor and crisis counselor yesterday, and on that advice I wish to say the following:
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible,...
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Death Penalty and the State
good-gollymissmolly:
conza replied to your post: conza replied to your post: conza replied to your…
The structure remains the same. Shouldn’t the victim, or next of kin be the ones determining the level of punishment? (If ‘aggressor’ found guilty by the judge, jury etc.) Not the state, or yourself? youtube.com/watch?v… :)
What about victims who don’t have a next of kin? Or a murderer with...
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Another Ron Paul supporter gained due to the...
Had an engineer say to me as I walked by, "Hey, I think I'm going to vote for your guy." Of course I stopped in my tracks with a, "Who?"
Him: "You know, Ron Paul."
Me: "Why is that?"
Him: "I heard him on the radio this morning."
Me: "The exchange about Iran with Bachmann?"
Him: "Yes! He sounds so much more intelligent than all the other people, especially her!"
Me: *Insert all background info, stories, why I support, etc etc. Typical enlightenment stuff*
Him: "Man, I'm going to go home and tell my wife I'm voting for Ron Paul. I'm going to see how she feels about that, HA!"
Then we walked away because work was a callin'. LOVE that Ron's stance last night is bringing support over to his side.
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melissa5001-deactivated20120320 asked: "I think the argument against regulation is extremely hurt by the recent economic collapse. Shows what greed can do to the rest of the country, in fact the whole world, when there is not some kind of regulation in place." - Someone used this as a reason for more regulation. How would I argue this in a short simple way for him to understand that isn't really true.
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“[T]he proponents of the state and its regulations become impaled by their own...”
– Chris Leither, The Evil Princes of Martin Place: The Reserve Bank of Australia, The Global Financial Crisis, and The Threat to Australians’ Liberty and Prosperity (2011), p. 40.
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A response to: ~*~* Evil Moustache-Twirling... →
logicallypositive:
conza replied to your post: i have come to the conclusion that “austrian…
i34.tinypic.com/675b88…. .. prove what? ;p
Everything you can possibly prove about it. It’s synthetic a priori which implies you can symbolize it. If you symbolize it, and…
Link to the complete discussion: here. I’ll try to keep this as small as possible.
So we both agree Mises’ theory...
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A response to: ~*~* Evil Moustache-Twirling... →
logicallypositive:
Within formal logic, there is a result known as Godel’s Incompleteness Theorems. I’ve written about them before, but basically what the important theorem says is that “Within a second-order or higher system of logic, it can be either consistent or complete, but not both.” So your formal system of logic can either:
be able to express and determine the truth value of every...
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Mathematical versus Verbal Logic?
logicallypositive:
conza replied to your post: i have come to the conclusion that “austrian…
i34.tinypic.com/675b88…. .. prove what? ;p
Everything you can possibly prove about it. It’s synthetic a priori which implies you can symbolize it. If you symbolize it, and create appropriate rules of deduction, you can plug it into a computer program like Isabelle and it will prove every result that is...
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A day at the Supreme/District Court
A long story short, I was summoned for Jury Duty. Yesterday I made the trip to the Supreme/District court.
I decided to turn up a bit before 9.15am, and was promptly directed to the Jury Assembly area. It was empty, except for a lady in a corner office, The Deputy Sheriff. She asked for my Juror Number, and said “you’re late”. I replied that I was early given the time stated...
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“It is absolutely necessary that this question of legal plunder should be...”
– Frédéric Bastiat, The Law, p. 15.
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daisysnotebook-deactivated20120 asked: Haha, clever joke. How long did it take you to become an an-cap?
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The Way of the Mencken
“Any man who is an individualist and a libertarian in this day and age has a difficult row to hoe. He finds himself in a world marked, if not dominated, by folly, fraud, and tyranny. He has, if he is a reflecting man, three possible courses of action open to him:
He may retire from the social and political world into his private occupation.
He can set about to try to change the world for the...
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“As for the kindergarten [level] argument, it does not follow from the fact that...”
– Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Reflections on the Origin and the stability of the State
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“First… it does not follow from the fact that the state provides roads and...”
– Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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“Recognizing knowledge as praxeologically constrained explains why the...”
– Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Economic Science and the Austrian Method
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“It is a widespread fallacy that skillful advertising can talk the consumers into...”
– Ludwig von Mises, Human Action, Chapter 15 - Is Advertising a Sham?
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whakahekeheke asked: What was the discussion on Wittgenstein about?
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Maddox: A Message to Cops →
“The point of this article isn’t to judge whether cops are justified in doing what they do. This article has nothing to do with police training. And this isn’t just about American cops. This is about the perception that we, the public, have of you when you perform the following actions. It doesn’t matter if you disagree with these perceptions, because right or wrong, they...
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“What we do is look for extremes in markets: very undervalued or very overvalued....”
– James Grant