PROPERTARIAN ARGUMENT – FOR THE PROSECUTION
Propertarianism argument functions analytically – as a criticism. Ergo propertarian argument functions prosecutorially. The assumption is that we will find fraud. Not because all men are evil and seeking to deceive (per se). But because all men are victims of genetically induced justification of our reproductive strategies via ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, and obscurantism.
An argument is true and good as long as it is both not-false and non-parasitic. And we can only know if it is good and true if it is complete: fully accounted.
We must meet all three criteria: True, Fully Accounted, and Good.
But we only know if it is true fully accounted and good, through prosecution of the alternatives, not justification of the statements alone.
Think of it this way: there are many roads to Rome. We only know the shortest road if we know the lengths of all the roads.
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-11 08:09:00 UTC
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