IMPORTANT- ON TERMS In 2009 when I both sensed that I’d come up with a solution

IMPORTANT- ON TERMS

In 2009 when I both sensed that I’d come up with a solution to government, but needed to improve my understanding, the first thing I did was write a glossary.

I combed every glossary of terms from economics, politics, social science, and philosophy, and substantially refined many of them, so that I could be sure I was speaking from definitions not assumptoins of meaning.

My glossary alone is something like 80k words. And while I probably could cut some of it, I can also expand it substantially with the terminology that I use today.

It reminds me of reading encyclopedias. It’s not so much that I remember everything in the encyclopedia (although honestly, I largely do) but it’s that the act of reading all those different topics forces you mind to form a series of associations, and counter associations, such that … like the use of Series i use in propertarianism, or like ‘fields’ in mathematics, or like any ‘one of these things is not like the others’ games. It is very hard for falsehoods to survive without at least questioning them.

Most people, when they engage in any discourse on cooperation: ethics, morals, politics, economics, group strategy, do so from a position of ignorance of the terms they use, and their use is terribly conflationary. This means that they generally are making a very simple statement with pretentious words that they don’t understand.

Our ‘grammar’ (our proofs) make that very hard to get away with.