**If you can’t state it operationally, then it’s merely an analogy. Analogies are informative, but they are not truth propositions.**
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-18 00:44:00 UTC
Form: Aphorism
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INVOLUNTARY TRANSFER AS LOGICAL CONTRADICTION —“When a disagreement arises, if
INVOLUNTARY TRANSFER AS LOGICAL CONTRADICTION
—“When a disagreement arises, if you can discover an involuntary transfer implied in the other person’s argument, that would be equal to a logical contradiction in a debate. But restitution is also involuntary so not all involuntary transfers are bad – if they correct such a contradiction.”— Steve Pender
Priceless.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-16 13:15:00 UTC
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Worst. President. In. History
Worst. President. In. History.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-16 10:01:00 UTC
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The more free riding you suppress, the more productivity that you enforce. And n
The more free riding you suppress, the more productivity that you enforce. And northern europeans simply suppressed more free riding than any other people.
What we resent is that physical effort is more costly to the individual than intellectual effort, and that intellectual effort is much more productive and scarce than physical effort.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-15 09:08:00 UTC
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They are breeding, invading and fighting. You’re sitting on your ass and talking
They are breeding, invading and fighting.
You’re sitting on your ass and talking.
The problem is you.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-15 04:46:00 UTC
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Liberty is Like Truth….
Liberty is like truth : there is infinitely more of it than you have, no matter how much you have at present. Liberty is not a state. It’s a pursuit. (Critical Rationalism may not be perfect but it will cure a lot of intellectual ills.)
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Liberty is Like Truth….
Liberty is like truth : there is infinitely more of it than you have, no matter how much you have at present. Liberty is not a state. It’s a pursuit. (Critical Rationalism may not be perfect but it will cure a lot of intellectual ills.)
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Dark Enlightenment, Propertarianism, Aristocratic Egalitarianism
[T]HE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT IS A CRITICISM. [P]ROPERTARIANISM IS AN EXPLANATION. [A]RISTOCRATIC EGALITARIANISM IS A SOLUTION.*
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Dark Enlightenment, Propertarianism, Aristocratic Egalitarianism
[T]HE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT IS A CRITICISM. [P]ROPERTARIANISM IS AN EXPLANATION. [A]RISTOCRATIC EGALITARIANISM IS A SOLUTION.*
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(joy of philosophy) The problem of arbitrary precision never occurs in voluntary
(joy of philosophy)
The problem of arbitrary precision never occurs in voluntary exchange.
Information is alway sufficient for decidability.
Buridan’s Ass never starves.
This is one of those things: once you get it, it’s like relativity was for physicists – the world is a much simpler, and very different place.
Operationalism solves the problem of reducing all statements to empirical (observable) and therefore sympathetically testable terms.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-14 10:31:00 UTC