Author: Curt Doolittle

THE TERNARY LOGIC OF COOPERATION

1) The ternary logic of cooperation consists of three possible states: Violence(predation), Cooperation (exchange), and Avoidance (boycott); and cooperation, whether rational or pre-rational, is only beneficial if productive and non-parasitic (is absent of free riding/imposed cost). Even the advocacy of free riding, Involuntary transfer and imposed costs is an act of fraud.

2) We have invented a series of incrementally complex logical instruments that permit us to isolate properties and make comparisons, an without which we cannot make comparisons. All forms of ‘calculation’ (in the widest sense) depend upon these

a) Properties (identities) and Categories (sets) : Logic (description)

b) Counting (multiples) and Naming (numbering) : Arithmetic (quantities)

c) Measures and Ratios : Mathematics (relations)

d) Causal Relations : Physics (causality)

e) Forecasting (time) and Planning (acting) : The Logic of Action

f) Cooperation : The Ternary Logic of Cooperation (production)

The Ternary Logic of Cooperation constitutes the missing ‘logic’ of cooperation.

Western Philosophy is first and foremost, in itself, the logic of rational action – the tools we use to rationalize action in the world. I have abandoned the attempt to restate praxeology and abandoned the term praxeology as unrecoverable, given both the ideological commitment of its adherents, the logical and empirical failure of misesian praxeology as pseudoscientific, and the absurdly primitive levantine immorality of rothbardianism. So at this point I’ve decided to go forward using the “Ternary Logic of Cooperation” and the in-group prohibition on free riding and the out-group restatement of free riding as a prohibition on imposed costs.

Curt Doolittle

The Philosophy of Aristocracy

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev Ukraine