But that’s the final nail in the coffin of praxeology. If we are morally blind (and science says that we are) for the reasons that I’ve stated (genetics, reproductive strategy, discounting of the dependence upon others for information and opinion, and higher intelligence discounting of transaction costs) then that which is possible to apprehend in the context of voluntary exchange, is open to, and the victim of, cognitive biases – just like all other judgements.
As such, the logic of cooperation must forever be empirically and instrumentally derived as a theoretic construct, and can only be treated as theoretic construct, not an axiomatic one. (Given the strict difference between axiomatic-non-correspondent-with-reality and theoretic-correspondent-with-reality systems.)
So I have finally put an end to the argument that ethics, and the logic of cooperation are axiomatic, and we can discard praxeology.
Have to run now, but I’ll continue with this argument over the next month or two as I refine it further.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev
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