ONE MORE PASS AT MISES I have to re-read mises again. It’s very dense work. But

ONE MORE PASS AT MISES

I have to re-read mises again. It’s very dense work. But on one topic in particular: his emphasis on apriorism.

Because, for some reason I didn’t really understand (habit? Immaturity of scientific Philosophy?) Mises attempted to use logic to defend praxeology.

But he was wrong. Praxeology is a scientific not logical question. You cannot deduce much from human action. However, you can TEST any statement of incentives a priori. Because we are marginally indifferent from one another.

Took me a long time to get my arms around all of this.

And Hans Hoppe’s (brief) advice to me had a dramatic influence on how I argued these positions. But it was the advice I needed.

I learned pretty much everything from Hoppe worth learning. In the sense, that the few insights that I have had are purely dependent upon the insights he gave us.

I just am very lucky that we’ve got a generation between us, so that I can draw on science, and the demonstrated failure of socialism, rather than draw on philosophy and logic and the as-yet-undemonstrated failure of socialism, and the as-yet-scientific validation of the classical liberal, aristocratic, vision of man.