Form: Definition

  • Human logical facility consists in the identification of constant, inconstant, a

    Human logical facility consists in the identification of constant, inconstant, and sets thereof, of constant relations between properties of sense perception.

    IOW: the spectrum of colors (frequency) of light.

    Search my site for “constant relations”


    Source date (UTC): 2019-11-25 01:31:15 UTC

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  • WHAT IS RENT SEEKING?: (economics) When an individual or organization seeks to g

    WHAT IS RENT SEEKING?: (economics) When an individual or organization seeks to gain added income without any reciprocal contribution of productivity. Typically involves trade policy, industrial policy, government-funded and social service programs.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-11-22 17:27:30 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1197929613441323009

  • WHAT IS RENT SEEKING?: (economics) When an individual or organization seeks to g

    WHAT IS RENT SEEKING?: (economics) When an individual or organization seeks to gain added income without any reciprocal contribution of productivity. Typically involves trade policy, industrial policy, government-funded and social service programs.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-11-22 12:27:00 UTC

  • DISAMBIGUATION: Feminine Collectivism(Consumption) != Masculine Commons-ism (Cap

    DISAMBIGUATION: Feminine Collectivism(Consumption) != Masculine Commons-ism (Capitalization of Commons)
    and != Adolescent Anarchism (Non-Commons):
    Anarchism is “marxism of the common”, instead of Communism “marxism of the private”: monopolies.
    @StefanMolyneux @freedomainradio


    Source date (UTC): 2019-11-21 14:59:31 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1197529981666152451

  • Collectivism(Consumption) != Commons-ism (Capitalization of Commons)

    Collectivism(Consumption) != Commons-ism (Capitalization of Commons).


    Source date (UTC): 2019-11-21 08:41:00 UTC

  • Hmmm… Define “True”. b/c True = Sufficient to satisfy the demand for infallibi

    Hmmm… Define “True”. b/c True = Sufficient to satisfy the demand for infallibility given the decision in question. It doesn’t matter what S believes, only what S warranties. Self reporting and reporting have little if any correspondence with demonstrated behavior.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-11-20 23:55:23 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1197302448500756482

    Reply addressees: @analytic_philo

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1197294219544662016


    IN REPLY TO:

    @analytic_philo

    If you think your mere opinion is knowledge, you’re totally wrong. Knowledge is justified true believe, as Plato put it. Nowadays, philosophers say that:

    S knows that P

    if and only if

    i) P is true,
    ii) S believes that P and
    iii) S has a justification for believing in P. https://t.co/uott3iIfuI

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1197294219544662016

  • The Four Great Inventions are inventions from ancient China that are celebrated

    The Four Great Inventions are inventions from ancient China that are celebrated in Chinese culture for their historical significance and as symbols of ancient China’s advanced science and technology.

    The Four Great Inventions are:

    Compass

    Gunpowder

    Papermaking

    Printing

    FAILURE

    by James Santagata

    1. Compass – China oriented Walls | West explored Worlds

    2. Gunpowder – China made multicolored fireworks | West put Men on the Moon.

    3. Papermaking – China made toilet paper | West copied toilet paper as top notch, give credit where credit due.

    4. Printing – China printed Decrees & Death Sentences | West printed Treatises, Theories + Technical Manuals

    (By why did she fail? They printed wisdom literature. Conversely, Europeans printed technical literature “how to”. When they set out to see the world, they found it awful (disharmonious), when europeans set out to see the world they found it profitable. )

    HISTORY

    Printing evolved in china from ‘taking rubbings’ of carved Confucian texts. Eventually evolving into raised letters, and then raised letters with ink.

    European Mechanical presses

    Mechanical presses as used in European printing remained unknown in East Asia. Instead, printing remained an unmechanized, laborious process with pressing the back of the paper onto the inked block by manual “rubbing” with a hand tool. In Korea, the first printing presses were introduced as late as 1881–83, while in Japan, after an early but brief interlude in the 1590s, Gutenberg’s printing press arrived in Nagasaki in 1848 on a Dutch ship.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-11-19 13:10:00 UTC

  • Glossary of Terms

    (NOTE, This glossary should provide a sentence or two definition with pointers to the section of the book that provides exposition.)

    P-Method, P-Logic, P-Testimony or Testimonialism, P-Ethics or Propertarian ethics, P-Law or Natural Law of Reciprocity, Operational Language and Vocabulary. Disambiguation by Serialization and Operationalism,   The Copula, The Verb To-Be, ePrime, The Grammars, Inflationary and deflationary Grammars. Fictionalisms. Deceits. Abrahamic method of deceit.   Ternary Logic, Compatibilism, The Coercive Technologies, Three Classes of Elites, Adversarialism, Falsification, Justification Decidability, Truth as Demand for decidability., Warranty of Due Diligence, Reciprocity, Imposition of costs, Demonstrated Interest. Property In Toto.   ABRAHAMISM (Deceits)In our Glossary of Natural Law “Abrahamism” refers to the argumentative technique of using Pilpul (via-positiva), and Critique (via-negativa) to construct sophisms (the argumentative equivalent of numerology and astrology) via use of disapproval, ridicule, shaming, rallying, loading, framing, suggestion, obscurantism, overloading, straw-manning, undue-praise, the Fictionalisms in ideal, pseudo-rational and pseudoscientific forms, appeals to reasonableness, and false promise, to create hazards. This technique is a variation on the female competitive strategy by which false promises of opportunity for approval, advocacy, defense, affection, sex, and care taking, and the threat of gossiping, ridicule, shaming, and rallying, and deprivation of opportunity for affection and sex are used to constrain and manipulate males, and use to threaten females with Ostracization from cooperation, sharing, assistance, and support. All three Abrahamic religions, Rousseu’s Moralism, Kantian philosophy, Marxist argument, and Postmodern thought all make use of this technique of argument, often stated as “Dialectic” but operationally consisting of Pilpul vs Critique. Most of Propertarianism (the Natural Law of Reciprocity) consists of attempts to prevent Abrahamic arguments and replace them with Testimonial (Ratio-Scientific-and-Operational) arguments so that Law (Constitutions) can be constructed strictly and logically and is not open to accidental, intentional, misinterpretation. Thus requiring legislatures reform a law rather than allow legislation from the Jurist’s bench – which is the means by which the US Constitution was undermined. AESTHETICS(philosophy) – A branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and the beautiful, especially with judgments of taste concerning them. The philosophy or science of art. AGENCY (Propertarianism) —“The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices subject to personal or external limitations. By contrast, structure refers to those factors that determine or limit an individual and his or her decisions, such as gender, social class, ethnicity, religion, customs, education, economic institutions, government, propaganda, ability, knowledge, ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, and deceit. Meaning that one’s agency is determined by the combination of beneficial institutions, abilities, and knowledge and inhibiting institutions, abilities, and knowledge”— As an example, God would have perfect agency, because would have perfect knowledge(omniscience), perfect reason, perfect emotions, perfect mindfulness, perfect ability to act (omnipotence), unlimited resources, and no competition, no need to cooperate, and therefore no need for conventions, laws, institutions, or infrastructure. As humans we have imperfect knowledge, imperfect reason, imperfect mindfulness, imperfect emotions, limited range of actions, limited resources, and we live in a world where we must compete, must cooperate to compete, and to do so require conventions, laws, institutions, and infrastructure. So, Agency consists of the degree to which one approaches perfect ability to act, when not limited by knowledge, reason, emotions, mindfulness, range of action, available instrumentation, available resources, competition, cooperation, conventions, laws, institutions and infrastructure. Given we can never have unlimited knowledge, unlimited resources, and we have limited ability to be free of competition, need for cooperation, conventions, laws, institutions, and infrastructure, we can seek largely to improve our knowledge, reason, mindfulness, and assets so that we maximize our agency within the available limits. CONVERSELY (VIA NEGATIVA) Remove sources of lack of fitness, lack of character (virtue), lack of resources, sources of normative and institutional resistance, sources of ignorance, error, bias, and deceit – all the impediments to agency – and agency will result. Then selecting a philosophy – a means of decidability – by which one can obtain one’s ends, and an aesthetic that values one’s passions in accordance with that philosophy. AGENCY = POTENTIAL ENERGY by Simon Ström Agency = potential energy (PE) Force = applied energy (F) Event = Impulse (Imp), [force vector + temporal dimension] Consequence = displacement vector (s) Action = work (W) Externalities = Waste heat (h) W = F * s COMMODITY(economics)– A comparatively homogeneous product that can typically be bought in bulk. It usually refers to a raw material – oil, cotton, cocoa, silver – but can also describe a manufactured product used to make other things, for example, microchips used in personal computers. COMMON LAW(law)– Legally binding rules or principles of justice developed in the course of history from the gradual accumulation of rulings by judges in individual cases, as differentiated from the kind of statute law embodied in special legal codes or statutes enacted by legislative assemblies or imposed by executive decrees. The importance of the common law heritage is particularly great in the legal systems of Great Britain and of most former British colonies, including the U.S. COMMONS(law, economics) – Originally, meaning Land or resources belonging to or affecting the whole of a community. More articulately: any form of property to which members of a group share an interests, but where that interest is obtained by an unspecified membership in the group rather than by explicit possession of title. I use this term to refer to both physical property and normative commons. The problem with commons is that without shares, even un-tradable shares, the ownership of the commons cannot be protected from confiscation by various means including immigration, or political confiscation. DECIDABILTY, DECIDABLE vs DISCRETION (testimony)

    In the REVERSE: a question (statement) is DECIDABLE if an algorithm (set of operations) exists within the limits of the system (rules, axioms, theories) that can produce a decision (choice). In other words, if the sufficient information for the decision is present (ie: is decidable) within the “system”(ie: grammar).

    In the OBVERSE: Instead, we should determine if there is a means of choosing without the need for additional information supplied from outside the system (ie: not discretionary).

    Or in simple terms, if DISCRETION is necessary the question is undecidable, and if discretion is unnecessary, a proposition is decidable. This separates reason (or calculation in the wider sense) from computation (algorithm).DEMONSTRATED PROPERTY(law) – an expanded definition of property that is based upon the full scope of what humans consider to be property, based upon what they demonstrate that they consider to be property. Demonstrated Property is the definition of ‘property’ used in Propertarianism. EMOTIONS (psychology)Emotions are reactions to changes in state of “capital” we refer to as Property in Toto that we either have, or might have: obtaining it, saving it, or holding options on past, present and future utility of it. That utility can reduce our physical, intellectual, emotional, reproductive, or time costs. Our “values” influence us in the sense that the value we attribute to any given form of capital varies according to our gender, class, ability, condition, and inventory of existing capital. EMPIRICAL (testimony)– “Empirical” means observable, and therefore measurable, and therefore commensurable, and therefore open to tests of coherence. Empirical: Reciprocally Observable, and therefore agreeable, or disagreeable.

    1. Empirical means observable such that claims can be intersubjectively verifiable or falsifiable: meaning the observation can be “agreed or disagreed upon”;
    2. in addition it means a sufficient volume of observations that we falsify the fragility of episodic memories, our tendency to err, our tendency to find patterns that don’t exist, or to bias the results, and to use both to deceive ;
    3. in addition it means using physical instruments of measurement to compensate for the limits of our senses, perception, and the resulting limits to intuition, prediction, and memory;
    4. in addition it means using logical instruments of measurement (testing) of constant, contingent, inconstant, and non-relations to compensate for the limits of our intuition, imagination, prediction, and reason and as such to prevent claims made in ignorance, error, bias, and deceit.
    5. together consisting of tests of reciprocity of information, and the possibility of Agreement or disagreement by reciprocity of information using due diligence in the falsification of sense, perception, intuition, prediction, and claim by RECIPROCAL due diligence using quantity, quality, consistency, causality.

    See the value of operational language? If you have the words for it, most philosophical discourses is rendered nonsense. See how law (competition) differs from philosophy by reduction to reciprocity not the self (philosophical justification)? Like I said, in almost all cases philosophical questions are sophisms due to idealism rather than realism – operational language. EXTERNALITY, EXTERNALITIES(law, economics) – An economic side-effect. Externalities are costs or benefits arising from an economic activity that affects somebody other than the people engaged in economic activity and are not reflected fully in PRICES. Positive Externality: A positive externality is a side-effect produced by taking an action that causes an involuntary increase in an individual’s inventory of property-in-toto* (Most normative commons are constructed by way of positive externalities) Negative Externality: A negative externality is a side-effect produced by taking an action that causes an involuntary decrease in an individual’s inventory of property-in-toto*   (Immoral actions produce negative externalities, moral actions do not) GHETTO ETHICS (Abrahamism)– literally, the ethics of the medieval urban ghetto. As a ‘state within a state’ residents of the ghetto can conduct exchange as if they are state actors by relying upon high trust exchange in-group, while using low trust exchange out-group. However, in any polity, each of us cannot act as a ‘state’ by applying low trust with some and high trust with others because the net result is a near-universally low trust society for the vast majority. In such an environment demand for the state and its interventions as a proxy for trust remains high, since low trust is by definition the use of cunning and deception to obtain discounts and premiums that the opposite party would not tolerate willingly. In other words, low trust ethics are parasitic, and impose high transaction costs on the population. The underlying point I’m making is the absurdity of using the model of a state within a state to advocate for a stateless society. In that lens the entire Rothbardian project is… well, absurdly illogical. Laughable even. Aristocratic egalitarianism (the protestant ethic) suppresses all cheating such that demand for the state is low because transaction costs and conflicts are minimized, while the velocity of production and exchange is high. GRAMMARS (testimony)

    |TRUTHFUL GRAMMARS OF EXPRESSION| Math, Logic, Science, Operations(protocols, processes, recipes), Economics (money, banking, finance, accounting), Law (Natural), History(Description, Narration), Literature (including poetry > essay > fiction > mythology).

    |FICTIONALISMS| Deceit > Sophism->Innumeracy > Idealism- >Surrealism > Pseudoscience->Magic > Supernaturalism->Occultism.

    |DECEITS| failure of due diligence > ignorance > error > bias > wishful thinking > loading > framing > suggestion > obscurantism > fictionalism > denialism > and deceit.

    |ABRAHAMIC GRAMMARS|: Disapproval as substitute for argument > False Promise > Baiting into Hazard > Pilpul (sophism) > Critique () > Heaping of Undue Praise, Straw Man Criticism as a Vehicle for Disapproval > Reputation Destruction > Failure to Supply a Competing alternative capable of surviving same criticisms > Authoritarian Conformity,

    |AVOIDANCE| Disapproval > shaming > moralizing > psychologizing > ridicule >rallying > gossiping > undermining > and reputation-destruction. “DSRRGUR”.

    |ABRAHAMIC EVOLUTION| Abrahamism > (Adding Platonism) > Judaism > Christianity > Islam > (Dark Age Theology) > Marxism > Postmodernism > Feminism > Denialism: “APMPFD”.ALIENABLE / ALIENATION / INALIENABLE

    ALIENABLE: able to be transferred to new ownership. ALIENATION: the transfer of the ownership of property rights. INALIENABLE:  incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred In property law, the possessor may not have the right to sell a parcel of land—no right of alienation. So the parcel is “inalienable” as to the possessor. We are used to seeing the term in the context of rights. Inalienable rights. Rights that cannot be taken away from you without violating Natural Law. But what about the other application of the principle? You CAN’T transfer the right of self defense. You have no ability to alienate a right if the right is inalienable. You can pay/incentivize someone to help you defend yourself, but you can’t transfer the right away.. This is brilliant and true and the consequences of trying to transfer your duty in this regard result in loss of sovereignty. In the US we still have the ability to be sovereign, but we have not behaved sovereign for quite some time as a population and that needs to change immediately if not sooner. Militia service is costly in the sense that it takes time, preparedness, planning, etc which is why people have offloaded the cost of sovereignty onto other extralegal organizations. Having “police” incentivizes the shift of the cost of sovereignty onto those willing to serve for a price and it moves the common man away from maximizing his agency in a setting of aristocratic egalitarianism and peerage and puts the common man in the position of submissive subject. |LAW| Transcendence > Sovereignty + Reciprocity (One Law) > Insurer (Court) (King / Judge of last resort) > The Discovered Law > The Referee (Judge) > The Jury -> The Thang -> The Senate -> { the King/Monarchy, the Senate/Lords(oligarchy) And the House (industry) and the Church (families) and the “those who have only the law to defend them – the underclasses”}. |LONG CYCLE OF HISTORY| {MALE EVOLUTIONARY TERRITORIAL: Fast Western > Medium Rational Eastern > Slow Narrative Indian Indian} vs FEMALE DEVOLUTIONARY MIGRATORY: Supernatural Semitic counter-evolutionary strategy. With Africa, Americas and Pacifica Lagging, and (it appears) Australian-NZ regressing. |MARKETS| Expression > Association > Cooperation > Reproduction > Production > Conflict Resolution (law) > Commons > Polities (order) > (War). |ORDER| Need to Acquire Resources > Action to Improve Acquisition > Cooperation to Improve > Opportunity for Parasitism > Incentive for Parasitism > Preserve incentive to cooperate > Prevent disincentives > Punish to create Disincentives > organize to punish to create disincentives. OPERATIONALISM, OPERATIONISM, INTUITIONISM

    OPERATIONALISM (PHYSICS): Operationalism is physics was important because it demonstrated that we expended a great deal of time and money by NOT practicing operationalism and that Einstein’s innovation should have been much earlier and could have been if we had practiced it.

    http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/operationalism/

    INTUITIONISM (MATHEMATICS): Intuitionism in mathematics was less important because there are few if any externalities produced by classical mathematical operations other than the psychological fallacy that there exists some separate mathematical reality. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intuitionism/ See Also: Constructive Mathematics:

    ECONOMIC INTUITIONISM/OPERATIONALISM IS MEANINGFUL: Therefore the HIGHEST moral requirement for demonstration of construction is in the domain of economics wherein the greatest externalities are caused by economic policy.

    OPERATIONISM (PSYCHOLOGY): Operationism in psychology was important in the recent transformation of psychology from a pseudoscience, to an experimental discipline, and because psychologists do produce, and did produce negative externalities – harm, to others. Not the least of which was multiple generations suffering from illnesses cast as cognitive problems. http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/199/1/operat.htm

    DEFINITION: PARSIMONY “Lowest cost across all dimensions testable by man”

    EXPANSION – Given human faculties: sense, disambiguation (constant relations), perception(integration-prediction), auto-association-prediction, attention-prediction (will), recursion-prediction, and release of actions; – And dimensions of tests of constant relations: free associative, categorical, logical, empirical, operational, rational choice, reciprocal rational choice, completeness; Parsimony must refer to:

    “Lowest Cost”, expanded to:

    the lowest cost (least information), description of a chain of causation surviving tests of: entropy, realism, naturalism, operationalism, and;

    bounded rational self interest:

    in the seizure of opportunity, from the field of identified opportunities, given the opportunity cost of the opportunity, determined by competition for the greatest return in the shortest time for the least effort, with the greatest certainty at the lowest risk, to the point of disequilibrium and subsequent re-equilibration, eliminating the opportunity from the field of opportunities.

    and

    reciprocity (repeating the above) is the only productive rather than parasitic (costly) means of interaction. (- although parasitism and predation are profitable means of interaction, they are consumptive not productive.) The difference between: – Testimony (due diligence by self), – Coherence(consistency by audience), – Parsimony(competition by market), … is grammatical (point-of-view), and an application of and conformity to, – the law of epistemology (free association-idea-> hypothesis-surviving > theory-surviving > application-surviving)

    I can fuss with this a bit to make it as tight as reciprocity and testimony, or any of the other definitions, but ‘skeptical subjective testing against Occam’s Razor serves as the colloquial reduction.POWER, PARETO, NASH DISTRIBUTIONS, EQUILIBRIUMS ( economics, sociology, politics)

    The Law of Social Orders

    POWER

    PARETO

    NASHPHENOMENON – noun, plural phenomena, or, especially for 3, phenomenons. An observed or observable change in state of a referent. PRAXEOLOGY (economics) – Intuitionism (Praxeology) in economics is important because manipulation of the economy causes redistributions, gains and losses. As a moral constraint, it is only slightly less influential than law. DEMONSTRATED INTERESTS, |PROPERTY IN TOTO|: DEMONSTRATED PROPERTY IN TOTO (Demonstrated Property)

    I. Self-Property Personal property: “Things an individual has a Monopoly Of Control over the use of.” ….a) Physical Body ….b) Actions and Time ….c) Memories, Concepts, and Identities: tools that enable us to plan and act. In the consumer economy, this includes brands. ….d) Status and Class (mate and relation selection, and reputation.)

    II. Personal Property ….a) Several-Property: Those things external to our bodies that we claim a monopoly of control over.

    III. Kinship Property ….a) Mates (access to sex/reproduction) ….b) Children (genetics) ….c) Familial Relations (security) ….d) Non-Familial Relations (utility) ….e) Consanguineous property (tribal and family ties)

    IV. Cooperative Property ….a) Organizational ties (work) ….b) Knowledge ties (skills, crafts)

    V. Shareholder Property ….a) Shares: Partnership or shareholdership: Recorded And Quantified Shareholder Property (physical shares in a tradable asset)

    VI. Common Property ….b) Commons: Unrecorded and Unquantified Shareholder Property (shares in commons) ….c) Artificial Property: (property created by fiat agreement) Intellectual Property.

    VII. Common Informal Institutional Property: ….a) Informal (Normative) Property: Our norms: manners, ethics, morals, myths, and rituals that consist of our social portfolio and which make our social order possible.

    VIII. Common Formal Institutional Property ….a) Formal Institutional Property: Formal (Procedural) Institutions: Our institutions: Religion (including the secular religion), Government, Laws.

     INSTITUTIONAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS

    I. Obligations

    1) Non-Imposition : (a) Productive, (b) Fully informed, (c) Warrantied, (d) Voluntary Transfer(Exchange) of property-in-toto, (e) Free of External Imposition of Costs against others’ Property-in-toto.

    II. Rights

    a) Constituo – Homesteading: Convert into property through bearing a cost of transformation. b) Transitus – Transit: passage through 3d space. c) Usus – Use: setting up a stall. d) Fructus – Fruits: (blackberries, wood, profits) e) Mancipio – Emancipation: (sale, transfer) f) Abusus – Abuse: (Consumption or Destruction) Opposite of Constituo.

    CATEGORIES OF DEMONSTRATED INTEREST

    I) Non-Property (Bring under total control) ….CONTROL: Total Control ….PURPOSE: Create Property ….YES: Constituo, Transitus, Usus, Fructus, Mancipio, Abusus. II) Possession III) Consensual Possession IV) Normative Possession – “property” V) INSTITUTIONAL POSSESSION – “PROPERTY RIGHTS”

    i) Personal (Private) Property (limited control) ….PURPOSE: Acquisition Inventory and Consumption ….YES: Transitus, Usus, Fructus, Mancipio, ….MAYBE: Abusus ii) Shareholder (Private) Property (very limited control) ….CONTROL: Very Limited Control ….PURPOSE: Dividends from Cooperation ….YES: Fructus ….MAYBE: ?Transitus, ?Usus,?Mancipio, ….NO: Abusus iii) Common (Public) Property (All Citizen Shareholders) ….CONTROL: No control. ….PURPOSE: Prohibition on Consumption. ….MAYBE: Transitus, Usus, Fructus, ….NO: Mancipio, Abusus

    |CRIMES| Predation > Parasitism > Free Riding > Conspiracy > War > Evil.

    I – Predation (Physical)- Criminal Prohibitions. Harm: a. Murder b. Violence (harm, rape, damage, asymmetry of force) c. Theft (asymmetry of control) *FREEDOM Achieved Upon Suppression.

    II – Parasitism– Unethical Prohibitions. Fraud (Informational): d. Hazard Production (Baiting, Entrapment), Poisoning the Well (Gossip, Ridicule, Shaming, Rallying, Reputation Destruction, Straw Manning, Heaping of Undue Praise on the undeserving.) e. Fraud (false information) f. Omission (Omitting information) g. Obscurantism (Obscuring information) h. Obstruction (Inhibiting someone else’s transaction) *ETHICALITY Achieved Upon Suppression.

    III – Free-Riding (Social)- Immoral Prohibitions. Free Riding (Social): i. Profit without contribution to production. j. Externalization (externalizing costs of any transaction) k. Free Riding (using externalities for self-benefit) l. Socializing Losses (externalization to commons) m. Privatizing Gains (appropriation of commons) *MORALITY Achieved Upon Suppression.

    IV – Political Prohibitions. Conspiracy (Political): n. Monopoly, Cartel Seeking (or partial monopoly) o. Rent Seeking (organizational free riding) p. Corruption ( organized rent seeking) q. Conspiracy (organized indirect theft) r. Extortion (Organized direct theft), Blackmail. *LIBERTY Achieved Upon Suppression.

    V – War. Military Prohibitions. Warfare (Military): s. Conversion (Propaganda, Religious or normative theft of norms) t. Overbreeding u. Immigration. (dilution of norms, institutions, genes) v. War (organized violence for the purpose of theft) w. Conquest. (reorganization of all property and relations) x. Genocide. (extermination of kin and genetic future)

    *SOVEREIGNTY Achieved Upon Suppression.

    VI – Evil z. The imposition of costs upon the interests of others without intent or incentive for gain, but for the purpose of causing them loss regardless of one’s gain or loss.PROTOCOL, MEDICAL PROTOCOL(medicine) Medical treatments and tests are discussed as protocols. Medical (Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment), – Advisory. Clinical (Research and field trials), – Required. Procedural (EMT, Nurses, Operating rooms.) – Strictest. RECIPROCITY (economics, law): the practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit, especially privileges granted by one individual, group, organization, polity, or country to another. REFERRER, REFERENT (REFERENCE), CO-REFERENTIAL(Linguistics)– A referrer or reference is the symbol or name that refers to a person, thing, or idea. Note that we use the term “Referrer” rather than reference. A referent is a person or thing to which a name – a linguistic expression or other symbol – refers.   A referrer and a referent refer to one another and are therefore co-referential. RENT SEEKING (Economics) – In public choice theory as well as in economics, rent-seeking means seeking to increase one’s share of existing wealth without creating new wealth. Simple Version: “Corruption from outside the government inside of inside the government.”

    NOUN 1. the fact or practice of manipulating public policy or economic conditions as a strategy for increasing profits. “cronyism and rent-seeking have become an integral part of the way our biggest companies do business”

    ADJECTIVE 1. engaging in or involving the manipulation of public policy or economic conditions as a strategy for increasing profits. “rent-seeking lobbyists” Rent-seeking results in reduced economic efficiency through misallocation of resources, reduced wealth-creation, lost government revenue, heightened income inequality, and potential national decline. In its original sense, rent seeking is the act of gaining partial ownership of land in order to gain control of a part of its production. In government it is the act of gaining privileges, redistribution or partial monopolies. In its broadest sense it is the act of obtaining some sort if claim on the productivity of others rather than producing something ones self, or through voluntary exchange. We all seek rents. We all seek opportunity for benefitting from either the actions of our organizations, the actions of others, or the grant of state state monopolies. Women seek mates as monetary rents and men to ease the burden of childrearing. We all seek rents. We could argue that rent seeking is the primary incentive for cooperation. Because so few of us are productive enough through direct exchange of our efforts. The only rent thats totally moral is interest. Interest is free of involuntary transfer. Interest, in the sense that we rent money to others, contrary to our superstitions, is moral. Now, It is possible to seek rents via interest. Either through usury or through leveraging the state’s fiat money. One can collect interest on production. On can collect interest on consumption. Neither of these things is necessary. Both are voluntary. Neither produce negative externalities. They create whole sequences of positive externalities. But collecting interest on externalities is immoral if it creates externalities that produce involuntary transfers. Rothbards ghetto ethics actually encourage involuntary transfers. Under the false presumption that the market will solve the problem through competition. But Since all things being equal, profit from externalities is greater than the same loan without externalities, just the opposite is true. The market will encourage externalities. Also, ghetto ethics assume that judges will not hold people accountable for those externalities and require restitution of them. But they have and will. Because it is consistent with the ethics of property to do so. STRICT CONSTRUCTION (law): Strict Construction is an abused term where the courts instead use the terms Textualism and Original Intent. But under Propertarian property rights theory, Strict Construction refers to requiring that any law passed be accompanied by argument showing that such a law is specifically authorized by the constitution. In other words, laws constitute permissible legal operations. And none of them can violate property rights. This is important because otherwise, if discretion is required, then judges can insert deception, imaginary content, bias and error into the body of law. (As they have done, circumventing the legislature, the constitution, and property rights.) As such the principle of Propertarian Strict Construction (as opposed to Textualism’s strict construction) requires that we operationally define the construct of all any law. This principle is important because laws have the greatest effect on a polity – and often the greatest unintended effect upon individuals and the polity. TRUST (psychology, sociology, law): Where one party experiences mindfulness in predicting that the intertemporal actions of another party, will not impose costs upon one’s demonstrated intersets; and to advance mutual interests given the opportunity; within the limits of demand for bearing the costs of doing so. I might refine that a bit but it’s pretty good. THREE INSTINCTS (haidt, biology) Reciprocate, Contract, Disgust, and Familial Priority, and Kin Selection.   TRUTH  Testimony sufficient to meet Demand for decidability. ( … ) THE HIERARCHY OF THE LAWS

    VIA NEGATIVA 1. Laws of Nature (Measurement) … Physics … Chemistry … Biology … … Ecology … Consciousness … Economics

    Laws of Action … Engineering (?Where?) … … ( … ) Applied

    Laws of Thought ( Logics ) … ( … ) … Neural Economy

    Laws of Speech (Grammars) … … Logic … … Mathematics … … … Positional Naming … … … Counting … … … Arithmetic … … … … Accounting … … … Geometry … … … Calculus … … … Statistics … … Algorithm … … Recipe, Protocol … … Testimony … … Description … … Narration … … Fiction … … Fictionalisms … … … Sophistry, Idealism, Surrealism .… … … Spiritual, Occult, Supernatural … … … Magical, Supernormal, Pseudo scientific … … Deceits

    Natural Law (Cooperation) … Juridical Law ( Conflict Resolution) … … Law of Property (Conflict Avoidance) … … Law of Tort (Conflict over Harms) … … Law of Contract (Conflict over Trades) … Normative Law (…) … … Manners, Ethics, Morals, … … Strategy (Traditions, Rituals, Myths, Histories) … … Institutions formal and informal .… Legislation (Commons Production) … … Regulation (Prior Restraints) … Command ( Deciding the Undecidable ) … Treaty ( Between insurers of last resort ) … War ( Beyond the Limits of Cooperation )WEST, THE WEST, WESTERN CIVILIZATION ( … ) |WEST, THE | Transcendence (into Gods) > Agency > Heroism + Excellence > Sovereignty + Reciprocity > Truth + Duty > Natural Law + Jury > Contract + Markets in Everything > Optimum Private + Optimum Commons > Optimum Evolutionary Adaptation to Change |*| Vulnerability to deceit.

    Note: “Gods: Those with Agency: Omnicognizance (reason, OmniIndependence (Emotions, biases), Omniscience (knowledge), Omnipotence (Physical), Immortality (time), Others (Law of Sovereignty+Reciprocity). Note that the Russian version does not include reciprocity.”

  • Glossary of Terms

    (NOTE, This glossary should provide a sentence or two definition with pointers to the section of the book that provides exposition.)

    P-Method, P-Logic, P-Testimony or Testimonialism, P-Ethics or Propertarian ethics, P-Law or Natural Law of Reciprocity, Operational Language and Vocabulary. Disambiguation by Serialization and Operationalism,   The Copula, The Verb To-Be, ePrime, The Grammars, Inflationary and deflationary Grammars. Fictionalisms. Deceits. Abrahamic method of deceit.   Ternary Logic, Compatibilism, The Coercive Technologies, Three Classes of Elites, Adversarialism, Falsification, Justification Decidability, Truth as Demand for decidability., Warranty of Due Diligence, Reciprocity, Imposition of costs, Demonstrated Interest. Property In Toto.   ABRAHAMISM (Deceits)In our Glossary of Natural Law “Abrahamism” refers to the argumentative technique of using Pilpul (via-positiva), and Critique (via-negativa) to construct sophisms (the argumentative equivalent of numerology and astrology) via use of disapproval, ridicule, shaming, rallying, loading, framing, suggestion, obscurantism, overloading, straw-manning, undue-praise, the Fictionalisms in ideal, pseudo-rational and pseudoscientific forms, appeals to reasonableness, and false promise, to create hazards. This technique is a variation on the female competitive strategy by which false promises of opportunity for approval, advocacy, defense, affection, sex, and care taking, and the threat of gossiping, ridicule, shaming, and rallying, and deprivation of opportunity for affection and sex are used to constrain and manipulate males, and use to threaten females with Ostracization from cooperation, sharing, assistance, and support. All three Abrahamic religions, Rousseu’s Moralism, Kantian philosophy, Marxist argument, and Postmodern thought all make use of this technique of argument, often stated as “Dialectic” but operationally consisting of Pilpul vs Critique. Most of Propertarianism (the Natural Law of Reciprocity) consists of attempts to prevent Abrahamic arguments and replace them with Testimonial (Ratio-Scientific-and-Operational) arguments so that Law (Constitutions) can be constructed strictly and logically and is not open to accidental, intentional, misinterpretation. Thus requiring legislatures reform a law rather than allow legislation from the Jurist’s bench – which is the means by which the US Constitution was undermined. AESTHETICS(philosophy) – A branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and the beautiful, especially with judgments of taste concerning them. The philosophy or science of art. AGENCY (Propertarianism) —“The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices subject to personal or external limitations. By contrast, structure refers to those factors that determine or limit an individual and his or her decisions, such as gender, social class, ethnicity, religion, customs, education, economic institutions, government, propaganda, ability, knowledge, ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, and deceit. Meaning that one’s agency is determined by the combination of beneficial institutions, abilities, and knowledge and inhibiting institutions, abilities, and knowledge”— As an example, God would have perfect agency, because would have perfect knowledge(omniscience), perfect reason, perfect emotions, perfect mindfulness, perfect ability to act (omnipotence), unlimited resources, and no competition, no need to cooperate, and therefore no need for conventions, laws, institutions, or infrastructure. As humans we have imperfect knowledge, imperfect reason, imperfect mindfulness, imperfect emotions, limited range of actions, limited resources, and we live in a world where we must compete, must cooperate to compete, and to do so require conventions, laws, institutions, and infrastructure. So, Agency consists of the degree to which one approaches perfect ability to act, when not limited by knowledge, reason, emotions, mindfulness, range of action, available instrumentation, available resources, competition, cooperation, conventions, laws, institutions and infrastructure. Given we can never have unlimited knowledge, unlimited resources, and we have limited ability to be free of competition, need for cooperation, conventions, laws, institutions, and infrastructure, we can seek largely to improve our knowledge, reason, mindfulness, and assets so that we maximize our agency within the available limits. CONVERSELY (VIA NEGATIVA) Remove sources of lack of fitness, lack of character (virtue), lack of resources, sources of normative and institutional resistance, sources of ignorance, error, bias, and deceit – all the impediments to agency – and agency will result. Then selecting a philosophy – a means of decidability – by which one can obtain one’s ends, and an aesthetic that values one’s passions in accordance with that philosophy. AGENCY = POTENTIAL ENERGY by Simon Ström Agency = potential energy (PE) Force = applied energy (F) Event = Impulse (Imp), [force vector + temporal dimension] Consequence = displacement vector (s) Action = work (W) Externalities = Waste heat (h) W = F * s COMMODITY(economics)– A comparatively homogeneous product that can typically be bought in bulk. It usually refers to a raw material – oil, cotton, cocoa, silver – but can also describe a manufactured product used to make other things, for example, microchips used in personal computers. COMMON LAW(law)– Legally binding rules or principles of justice developed in the course of history from the gradual accumulation of rulings by judges in individual cases, as differentiated from the kind of statute law embodied in special legal codes or statutes enacted by legislative assemblies or imposed by executive decrees. The importance of the common law heritage is particularly great in the legal systems of Great Britain and of most former British colonies, including the U.S. COMMONS(law, economics) – Originally, meaning Land or resources belonging to or affecting the whole of a community. More articulately: any form of property to which members of a group share an interests, but where that interest is obtained by an unspecified membership in the group rather than by explicit possession of title. I use this term to refer to both physical property and normative commons. The problem with commons is that without shares, even un-tradable shares, the ownership of the commons cannot be protected from confiscation by various means including immigration, or political confiscation. DECIDABILTY, DECIDABLE vs DISCRETION (testimony)

    In the REVERSE: a question (statement) is DECIDABLE if an algorithm (set of operations) exists within the limits of the system (rules, axioms, theories) that can produce a decision (choice). In other words, if the sufficient information for the decision is present (ie: is decidable) within the “system”(ie: grammar).

    In the OBVERSE: Instead, we should determine if there is a means of choosing without the need for additional information supplied from outside the system (ie: not discretionary).

    Or in simple terms, if DISCRETION is necessary the question is undecidable, and if discretion is unnecessary, a proposition is decidable. This separates reason (or calculation in the wider sense) from computation (algorithm).DEMONSTRATED PROPERTY(law) – an expanded definition of property that is based upon the full scope of what humans consider to be property, based upon what they demonstrate that they consider to be property. Demonstrated Property is the definition of ‘property’ used in Propertarianism. EMOTIONS (psychology)Emotions are reactions to changes in state of “capital” we refer to as Property in Toto that we either have, or might have: obtaining it, saving it, or holding options on past, present and future utility of it. That utility can reduce our physical, intellectual, emotional, reproductive, or time costs. Our “values” influence us in the sense that the value we attribute to any given form of capital varies according to our gender, class, ability, condition, and inventory of existing capital. EMPIRICAL (testimony)– “Empirical” means observable, and therefore measurable, and therefore commensurable, and therefore open to tests of coherence. Empirical: Reciprocally Observable, and therefore agreeable, or disagreeable.

    1. Empirical means observable such that claims can be intersubjectively verifiable or falsifiable: meaning the observation can be “agreed or disagreed upon”;
    2. in addition it means a sufficient volume of observations that we falsify the fragility of episodic memories, our tendency to err, our tendency to find patterns that don’t exist, or to bias the results, and to use both to deceive ;
    3. in addition it means using physical instruments of measurement to compensate for the limits of our senses, perception, and the resulting limits to intuition, prediction, and memory;
    4. in addition it means using logical instruments of measurement (testing) of constant, contingent, inconstant, and non-relations to compensate for the limits of our intuition, imagination, prediction, and reason and as such to prevent claims made in ignorance, error, bias, and deceit.
    5. together consisting of tests of reciprocity of information, and the possibility of Agreement or disagreement by reciprocity of information using due diligence in the falsification of sense, perception, intuition, prediction, and claim by RECIPROCAL due diligence using quantity, quality, consistency, causality.

    See the value of operational language? If you have the words for it, most philosophical discourses is rendered nonsense. See how law (competition) differs from philosophy by reduction to reciprocity not the self (philosophical justification)? Like I said, in almost all cases philosophical questions are sophisms due to idealism rather than realism – operational language. EXTERNALITY, EXTERNALITIES(law, economics) – An economic side-effect. Externalities are costs or benefits arising from an economic activity that affects somebody other than the people engaged in economic activity and are not reflected fully in PRICES. Positive Externality: A positive externality is a side-effect produced by taking an action that causes an involuntary increase in an individual’s inventory of property-in-toto* (Most normative commons are constructed by way of positive externalities) Negative Externality: A negative externality is a side-effect produced by taking an action that causes an involuntary decrease in an individual’s inventory of property-in-toto*   (Immoral actions produce negative externalities, moral actions do not) GHETTO ETHICS (Abrahamism)– literally, the ethics of the medieval urban ghetto. As a ‘state within a state’ residents of the ghetto can conduct exchange as if they are state actors by relying upon high trust exchange in-group, while using low trust exchange out-group. However, in any polity, each of us cannot act as a ‘state’ by applying low trust with some and high trust with others because the net result is a near-universally low trust society for the vast majority. In such an environment demand for the state and its interventions as a proxy for trust remains high, since low trust is by definition the use of cunning and deception to obtain discounts and premiums that the opposite party would not tolerate willingly. In other words, low trust ethics are parasitic, and impose high transaction costs on the population. The underlying point I’m making is the absurdity of using the model of a state within a state to advocate for a stateless society. In that lens the entire Rothbardian project is… well, absurdly illogical. Laughable even. Aristocratic egalitarianism (the protestant ethic) suppresses all cheating such that demand for the state is low because transaction costs and conflicts are minimized, while the velocity of production and exchange is high. GRAMMARS (testimony)

    |TRUTHFUL GRAMMARS OF EXPRESSION| Math, Logic, Science, Operations(protocols, processes, recipes), Economics (money, banking, finance, accounting), Law (Natural), History(Description, Narration), Literature (including poetry > essay > fiction > mythology).

    |FICTIONALISMS| Deceit > Sophism->Innumeracy > Idealism- >Surrealism > Pseudoscience->Magic > Supernaturalism->Occultism.

    |DECEITS| failure of due diligence > ignorance > error > bias > wishful thinking > loading > framing > suggestion > obscurantism > fictionalism > denialism > and deceit.

    |ABRAHAMIC GRAMMARS|: Disapproval as substitute for argument > False Promise > Baiting into Hazard > Pilpul (sophism) > Critique () > Heaping of Undue Praise, Straw Man Criticism as a Vehicle for Disapproval > Reputation Destruction > Failure to Supply a Competing alternative capable of surviving same criticisms > Authoritarian Conformity,

    |AVOIDANCE| Disapproval > shaming > moralizing > psychologizing > ridicule >rallying > gossiping > undermining > and reputation-destruction. “DSRRGUR”.

    |ABRAHAMIC EVOLUTION| Abrahamism > (Adding Platonism) > Judaism > Christianity > Islam > (Dark Age Theology) > Marxism > Postmodernism > Feminism > Denialism: “APMPFD”.ALIENABLE / ALIENATION / INALIENABLE

    ALIENABLE: able to be transferred to new ownership. ALIENATION: the transfer of the ownership of property rights. INALIENABLE:  incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred In property law, the possessor may not have the right to sell a parcel of land—no right of alienation. So the parcel is “inalienable” as to the possessor. We are used to seeing the term in the context of rights. Inalienable rights. Rights that cannot be taken away from you without violating Natural Law. But what about the other application of the principle? You CAN’T transfer the right of self defense. You have no ability to alienate a right if the right is inalienable. You can pay/incentivize someone to help you defend yourself, but you can’t transfer the right away.. This is brilliant and true and the consequences of trying to transfer your duty in this regard result in loss of sovereignty. In the US we still have the ability to be sovereign, but we have not behaved sovereign for quite some time as a population and that needs to change immediately if not sooner. Militia service is costly in the sense that it takes time, preparedness, planning, etc which is why people have offloaded the cost of sovereignty onto other extralegal organizations. Having “police” incentivizes the shift of the cost of sovereignty onto those willing to serve for a price and it moves the common man away from maximizing his agency in a setting of aristocratic egalitarianism and peerage and puts the common man in the position of submissive subject. |LAW| Transcendence > Sovereignty + Reciprocity (One Law) > Insurer (Court) (King / Judge of last resort) > The Discovered Law > The Referee (Judge) > The Jury -> The Thang -> The Senate -> { the King/Monarchy, the Senate/Lords(oligarchy) And the House (industry) and the Church (families) and the “those who have only the law to defend them – the underclasses”}. |LONG CYCLE OF HISTORY| {MALE EVOLUTIONARY TERRITORIAL: Fast Western > Medium Rational Eastern > Slow Narrative Indian Indian} vs FEMALE DEVOLUTIONARY MIGRATORY: Supernatural Semitic counter-evolutionary strategy. With Africa, Americas and Pacifica Lagging, and (it appears) Australian-NZ regressing. |MARKETS| Expression > Association > Cooperation > Reproduction > Production > Conflict Resolution (law) > Commons > Polities (order) > (War). |ORDER| Need to Acquire Resources > Action to Improve Acquisition > Cooperation to Improve > Opportunity for Parasitism > Incentive for Parasitism > Preserve incentive to cooperate > Prevent disincentives > Punish to create Disincentives > organize to punish to create disincentives. OPERATIONALISM, OPERATIONISM, INTUITIONISM

    OPERATIONALISM (PHYSICS): Operationalism is physics was important because it demonstrated that we expended a great deal of time and money by NOT practicing operationalism and that Einstein’s innovation should have been much earlier and could have been if we had practiced it.

    http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/operationalism/

    INTUITIONISM (MATHEMATICS): Intuitionism in mathematics was less important because there are few if any externalities produced by classical mathematical operations other than the psychological fallacy that there exists some separate mathematical reality. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intuitionism/ See Also: Constructive Mathematics:

    ECONOMIC INTUITIONISM/OPERATIONALISM IS MEANINGFUL: Therefore the HIGHEST moral requirement for demonstration of construction is in the domain of economics wherein the greatest externalities are caused by economic policy.

    OPERATIONISM (PSYCHOLOGY): Operationism in psychology was important in the recent transformation of psychology from a pseudoscience, to an experimental discipline, and because psychologists do produce, and did produce negative externalities – harm, to others. Not the least of which was multiple generations suffering from illnesses cast as cognitive problems. http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/199/1/operat.htm

    DEFINITION: PARSIMONY “Lowest cost across all dimensions testable by man”

    EXPANSION – Given human faculties: sense, disambiguation (constant relations), perception(integration-prediction), auto-association-prediction, attention-prediction (will), recursion-prediction, and release of actions; – And dimensions of tests of constant relations: free associative, categorical, logical, empirical, operational, rational choice, reciprocal rational choice, completeness; Parsimony must refer to:

    “Lowest Cost”, expanded to:

    the lowest cost (least information), description of a chain of causation surviving tests of: entropy, realism, naturalism, operationalism, and;

    bounded rational self interest:

    in the seizure of opportunity, from the field of identified opportunities, given the opportunity cost of the opportunity, determined by competition for the greatest return in the shortest time for the least effort, with the greatest certainty at the lowest risk, to the point of disequilibrium and subsequent re-equilibration, eliminating the opportunity from the field of opportunities.

    and

    reciprocity (repeating the above) is the only productive rather than parasitic (costly) means of interaction. (- although parasitism and predation are profitable means of interaction, they are consumptive not productive.) The difference between: – Testimony (due diligence by self), – Coherence(consistency by audience), – Parsimony(competition by market), … is grammatical (point-of-view), and an application of and conformity to, – the law of epistemology (free association-idea-> hypothesis-surviving > theory-surviving > application-surviving)

    I can fuss with this a bit to make it as tight as reciprocity and testimony, or any of the other definitions, but ‘skeptical subjective testing against Occam’s Razor serves as the colloquial reduction.POWER, PARETO, NASH DISTRIBUTIONS, EQUILIBRIUMS ( economics, sociology, politics)

    The Law of Social Orders

    POWER

    PARETO

    NASHPHENOMENON – noun, plural phenomena, or, especially for 3, phenomenons. An observed or observable change in state of a referent. PRAXEOLOGY (economics) – Intuitionism (Praxeology) in economics is important because manipulation of the economy causes redistributions, gains and losses. As a moral constraint, it is only slightly less influential than law. DEMONSTRATED INTERESTS, |PROPERTY IN TOTO|: DEMONSTRATED PROPERTY IN TOTO (Demonstrated Property)

    I. Self-Property Personal property: “Things an individual has a Monopoly Of Control over the use of.” ….a) Physical Body ….b) Actions and Time ….c) Memories, Concepts, and Identities: tools that enable us to plan and act. In the consumer economy, this includes brands. ….d) Status and Class (mate and relation selection, and reputation.)

    II. Personal Property ….a) Several-Property: Those things external to our bodies that we claim a monopoly of control over.

    III. Kinship Property ….a) Mates (access to sex/reproduction) ….b) Children (genetics) ….c) Familial Relations (security) ….d) Non-Familial Relations (utility) ….e) Consanguineous property (tribal and family ties)

    IV. Cooperative Property ….a) Organizational ties (work) ….b) Knowledge ties (skills, crafts)

    V. Shareholder Property ….a) Shares: Partnership or shareholdership: Recorded And Quantified Shareholder Property (physical shares in a tradable asset)

    VI. Common Property ….b) Commons: Unrecorded and Unquantified Shareholder Property (shares in commons) ….c) Artificial Property: (property created by fiat agreement) Intellectual Property.

    VII. Common Informal Institutional Property: ….a) Informal (Normative) Property: Our norms: manners, ethics, morals, myths, and rituals that consist of our social portfolio and which make our social order possible.

    VIII. Common Formal Institutional Property ….a) Formal Institutional Property: Formal (Procedural) Institutions: Our institutions: Religion (including the secular religion), Government, Laws.

     INSTITUTIONAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS

    I. Obligations

    1) Non-Imposition : (a) Productive, (b) Fully informed, (c) Warrantied, (d) Voluntary Transfer(Exchange) of property-in-toto, (e) Free of External Imposition of Costs against others’ Property-in-toto.

    II. Rights

    a) Constituo – Homesteading: Convert into property through bearing a cost of transformation. b) Transitus – Transit: passage through 3d space. c) Usus – Use: setting up a stall. d) Fructus – Fruits: (blackberries, wood, profits) e) Mancipio – Emancipation: (sale, transfer) f) Abusus – Abuse: (Consumption or Destruction) Opposite of Constituo.

    CATEGORIES OF DEMONSTRATED INTEREST

    I) Non-Property (Bring under total control) ….CONTROL: Total Control ….PURPOSE: Create Property ….YES: Constituo, Transitus, Usus, Fructus, Mancipio, Abusus. II) Possession III) Consensual Possession IV) Normative Possession – “property” V) INSTITUTIONAL POSSESSION – “PROPERTY RIGHTS”

    i) Personal (Private) Property (limited control) ….PURPOSE: Acquisition Inventory and Consumption ….YES: Transitus, Usus, Fructus, Mancipio, ….MAYBE: Abusus ii) Shareholder (Private) Property (very limited control) ….CONTROL: Very Limited Control ….PURPOSE: Dividends from Cooperation ….YES: Fructus ….MAYBE: ?Transitus, ?Usus,?Mancipio, ….NO: Abusus iii) Common (Public) Property (All Citizen Shareholders) ….CONTROL: No control. ….PURPOSE: Prohibition on Consumption. ….MAYBE: Transitus, Usus, Fructus, ….NO: Mancipio, Abusus

    |CRIMES| Predation > Parasitism > Free Riding > Conspiracy > War > Evil.

    I – Predation (Physical)- Criminal Prohibitions. Harm: a. Murder b. Violence (harm, rape, damage, asymmetry of force) c. Theft (asymmetry of control) *FREEDOM Achieved Upon Suppression.

    II – Parasitism– Unethical Prohibitions. Fraud (Informational): d. Hazard Production (Baiting, Entrapment), Poisoning the Well (Gossip, Ridicule, Shaming, Rallying, Reputation Destruction, Straw Manning, Heaping of Undue Praise on the undeserving.) e. Fraud (false information) f. Omission (Omitting information) g. Obscurantism (Obscuring information) h. Obstruction (Inhibiting someone else’s transaction) *ETHICALITY Achieved Upon Suppression.

    III – Free-Riding (Social)- Immoral Prohibitions. Free Riding (Social): i. Profit without contribution to production. j. Externalization (externalizing costs of any transaction) k. Free Riding (using externalities for self-benefit) l. Socializing Losses (externalization to commons) m. Privatizing Gains (appropriation of commons) *MORALITY Achieved Upon Suppression.

    IV – Political Prohibitions. Conspiracy (Political): n. Monopoly, Cartel Seeking (or partial monopoly) o. Rent Seeking (organizational free riding) p. Corruption ( organized rent seeking) q. Conspiracy (organized indirect theft) r. Extortion (Organized direct theft), Blackmail. *LIBERTY Achieved Upon Suppression.

    V – War. Military Prohibitions. Warfare (Military): s. Conversion (Propaganda, Religious or normative theft of norms) t. Overbreeding u. Immigration. (dilution of norms, institutions, genes) v. War (organized violence for the purpose of theft) w. Conquest. (reorganization of all property and relations) x. Genocide. (extermination of kin and genetic future)

    *SOVEREIGNTY Achieved Upon Suppression.

    VI – Evil z. The imposition of costs upon the interests of others without intent or incentive for gain, but for the purpose of causing them loss regardless of one’s gain or loss.PROTOCOL, MEDICAL PROTOCOL(medicine) Medical treatments and tests are discussed as protocols. Medical (Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment), – Advisory. Clinical (Research and field trials), – Required. Procedural (EMT, Nurses, Operating rooms.) – Strictest. RECIPROCITY (economics, law): the practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit, especially privileges granted by one individual, group, organization, polity, or country to another. REFERRER, REFERENT (REFERENCE), CO-REFERENTIAL(Linguistics)– A referrer or reference is the symbol or name that refers to a person, thing, or idea. Note that we use the term “Referrer” rather than reference. A referent is a person or thing to which a name – a linguistic expression or other symbol – refers.   A referrer and a referent refer to one another and are therefore co-referential. RENT SEEKING (Economics) – In public choice theory as well as in economics, rent-seeking means seeking to increase one’s share of existing wealth without creating new wealth. Simple Version: “Corruption from outside the government inside of inside the government.”

    NOUN 1. the fact or practice of manipulating public policy or economic conditions as a strategy for increasing profits. “cronyism and rent-seeking have become an integral part of the way our biggest companies do business”

    ADJECTIVE 1. engaging in or involving the manipulation of public policy or economic conditions as a strategy for increasing profits. “rent-seeking lobbyists” Rent-seeking results in reduced economic efficiency through misallocation of resources, reduced wealth-creation, lost government revenue, heightened income inequality, and potential national decline. In its original sense, rent seeking is the act of gaining partial ownership of land in order to gain control of a part of its production. In government it is the act of gaining privileges, redistribution or partial monopolies. In its broadest sense it is the act of obtaining some sort if claim on the productivity of others rather than producing something ones self, or through voluntary exchange. We all seek rents. We all seek opportunity for benefitting from either the actions of our organizations, the actions of others, or the grant of state state monopolies. Women seek mates as monetary rents and men to ease the burden of childrearing. We all seek rents. We could argue that rent seeking is the primary incentive for cooperation. Because so few of us are productive enough through direct exchange of our efforts. The only rent thats totally moral is interest. Interest is free of involuntary transfer. Interest, in the sense that we rent money to others, contrary to our superstitions, is moral. Now, It is possible to seek rents via interest. Either through usury or through leveraging the state’s fiat money. One can collect interest on production. On can collect interest on consumption. Neither of these things is necessary. Both are voluntary. Neither produce negative externalities. They create whole sequences of positive externalities. But collecting interest on externalities is immoral if it creates externalities that produce involuntary transfers. Rothbards ghetto ethics actually encourage involuntary transfers. Under the false presumption that the market will solve the problem through competition. But Since all things being equal, profit from externalities is greater than the same loan without externalities, just the opposite is true. The market will encourage externalities. Also, ghetto ethics assume that judges will not hold people accountable for those externalities and require restitution of them. But they have and will. Because it is consistent with the ethics of property to do so. STRICT CONSTRUCTION (law): Strict Construction is an abused term where the courts instead use the terms Textualism and Original Intent. But under Propertarian property rights theory, Strict Construction refers to requiring that any law passed be accompanied by argument showing that such a law is specifically authorized by the constitution. In other words, laws constitute permissible legal operations. And none of them can violate property rights. This is important because otherwise, if discretion is required, then judges can insert deception, imaginary content, bias and error into the body of law. (As they have done, circumventing the legislature, the constitution, and property rights.) As such the principle of Propertarian Strict Construction (as opposed to Textualism’s strict construction) requires that we operationally define the construct of all any law. This principle is important because laws have the greatest effect on a polity – and often the greatest unintended effect upon individuals and the polity. TRUST (psychology, sociology, law): Where one party experiences mindfulness in predicting that the intertemporal actions of another party, will not impose costs upon one’s demonstrated intersets; and to advance mutual interests given the opportunity; within the limits of demand for bearing the costs of doing so. I might refine that a bit but it’s pretty good. THREE INSTINCTS (haidt, biology) Reciprocate, Contract, Disgust, and Familial Priority, and Kin Selection.   TRUTH  Testimony sufficient to meet Demand for decidability. ( … ) THE HIERARCHY OF THE LAWS

    VIA NEGATIVA 1. Laws of Nature (Measurement) … Physics … Chemistry … Biology … … Ecology … Consciousness … Economics

    Laws of Action … Engineering (?Where?) … … ( … ) Applied

    Laws of Thought ( Logics ) … ( … ) … Neural Economy

    Laws of Speech (Grammars) … … Logic … … Mathematics … … … Positional Naming … … … Counting … … … Arithmetic … … … … Accounting … … … Geometry … … … Calculus … … … Statistics … … Algorithm … … Recipe, Protocol … … Testimony … … Description … … Narration … … Fiction … … Fictionalisms … … … Sophistry, Idealism, Surrealism .… … … Spiritual, Occult, Supernatural … … … Magical, Supernormal, Pseudo scientific … … Deceits

    Natural Law (Cooperation) … Juridical Law ( Conflict Resolution) … … Law of Property (Conflict Avoidance) … … Law of Tort (Conflict over Harms) … … Law of Contract (Conflict over Trades) … Normative Law (…) … … Manners, Ethics, Morals, … … Strategy (Traditions, Rituals, Myths, Histories) … … Institutions formal and informal .… Legislation (Commons Production) … … Regulation (Prior Restraints) … Command ( Deciding the Undecidable ) … Treaty ( Between insurers of last resort ) … War ( Beyond the Limits of Cooperation )WEST, THE WEST, WESTERN CIVILIZATION ( … ) |WEST, THE | Transcendence (into Gods) > Agency > Heroism + Excellence > Sovereignty + Reciprocity > Truth + Duty > Natural Law + Jury > Contract + Markets in Everything > Optimum Private + Optimum Commons > Optimum Evolutionary Adaptation to Change |*| Vulnerability to deceit.

    Note: “Gods: Those with Agency: Omnicognizance (reason, OmniIndependence (Emotions, biases), Omniscience (knowledge), Omnipotence (Physical), Immortality (time), Others (Law of Sovereignty+Reciprocity). Note that the Russian version does not include reciprocity.”

  • Glossary of Concepts

    Glossary Of Concepts

    Propertarianism

    Propertarianism refers to a framework that includes Testimonialism (epistemology), Ethics (demonstrated property), Law (strict construction), Politics (market government), and Group Strategy (evolution)

    Testimonialism

    Testimonial Truth refers to existentially possible truth, which comes in the form of operationally described testimony, it differs from platonic idealized truth. Testimonialism refers to the set of criticisms that we have to apply if we intend to warrant due diligence to the truthfulness of our testimony. List of criticisms necessary for due diligence: Naming Consistency – Non-conflation of identities. Internal Consistency – Logical descriptions of theories. External Consistency – Empirical observations of theories. Existential Consistency – Operational definitions of concepts. Rational Consistency – Rational Choice Moral Consistency – Reciprocally Rational. Scope Consistency – Parsimonious, Limited, and Fully accounted. By applying some of those criticisms to a hypothesis, one gets a Theory (search criteria), once it gets exhaustively tested, one gets either a Fact (observation), Recipe (process), or Law(explanation), By operationally describing theories (sequences of physical actions + instruments + measurements), one can achieve testability and repeatability while, at the same time, imposing a prohibitive burden on speech that contains error, biases, wishful thinking, loading, suggestion and deceit. Instruments used in operational descriptions include physical, logical and institutional instruments; where sensors, IQ tests and property serve as examples of each. By continued testing of the theories, one eventually finds the limits of a theory (where we “falsified” it), this protects us from using a theory in an invalid scope (where it fails or lacks precision), in matters of cooperation one must add the full accountability of costs upon demonstrated property in order to avoid selection bias. In addition to testimony by those criticisms, one may issue less reliable warranties of sympathy (understanding of a conceptual relationship), honesty (intuition free of deceits), rationality (subjected to internal consistency), empiricism (subjected to external consistency), and scientific testing (expensive continued testing, but not testimonial).

    Non-Imposition against Demonstrated Property

    Propertarian ethics proposes the question of the rationality of cooperation and answers that human agents consider cooperation as a rational choice (instead of parasitism and predation) only if it does not impose costs upon that which they consider their property. Humans, as with other organisms, need to acquire resources in order to survive and reproduce, this requirement led to the development of an instinct to acquire and inventory many types of capital (physical, monetary, territorial, normative, genetic, etc.). Humans intuit that capital upon which they have invested, without imposing costs upon their groups, as their property, and retaliate to any attempt of imposing costs to that which they consider their property, this constitutes their demonstrated property. We can divide those into the following types of property: Self-Property – Body, Time, Actions, Memory, Concepts, Status, etc. Personal Property – Houses, Cars, “Things”, etc. Kinship Property – Mates, Children, Family, Friends, etc. Cooperative Property – Organizational and Knowledge ties. Shareholder Property – Recorded and Quantified shares. Common Property – Citizenship, Artificial Property. InformalInstitutional Property – Manners, Ethics, Morals, Myths, Rituals. FormalInstitutional Property – Religion, Government, Laws. One can also state the principle of non-imposition as the requirement that all transactions have the following properties: productivity, symmetry of knowledge, warranty, voluntary, without externalities of the same (previous) criteria. The principle of non-imposition in combination with demonstrated property allows a polity to construct law in a way that eliminates the need of discretionary interpretation, that means it provides decidability for all questions of law and contract. Humans evolved most of its emotions as reactions to change in their inventory of property, but they vary in their perception of what constitutes property, with different classes of humans prioritizing different moral intuitions.

    Intertemporal Division of Perception, Cognition, Knowledge, Labor, and Advocacy

    Humans form a division of perception in that progressives and libertarians have specialist moral intuitions suited to their roles in the community, whereas conservatives give equal weight to the six moral dimensions of (care, fairness, liberty, loyalty, authority, purity). These differences on moral intuitions suit individuals to different roles in a polity: “Conservatives” – Voluntary Organization of Cooperation. “Libertarians” – Voluntary Organization of Production. “Progressives” – Voluntary Organization of Consumption. Humans form a division of cognition in that we can classify people with different levels of ability, from those that learn by repetition, to those that learn by imitation, to those that learn by instruction, to those that learn by reading, to those that can model machines, to those that can synthesize ideas, to those that can model abstractions. Humans form a division of knowledge with each containing local information about their inventories of property and specialist knowledge upon which others depend. As we depend more upon the memories and actions of third parties, trust becomes necessary for complex information networks to evolve between humans. Humans form two divisions of labor, a reproductive division of labor between the genders in the production of new generations and a productive division of labor in the production of goods and services. Humans form a division of advocacy where conservatives advocate total constraint on consumption (saving), libertarians advocate meritocratic constraint on consumption (production), and progressives advocate consumption (nurture).

    The Three Coercive Technologies

    Each of the three classes, into which humans divide, specialize in one of the following three coercive technologies: Moral Coercive Power – The use of “words and signals” in order to influence people to behave in a way by the threat of imposition of social costs (opportunity costs). Economic Coercive Power – The use of “money and assets” in order to compel people to behave in a way by the promise of material rewards (good and services). Physical Coercive Power – The use of “armies and weapons” in order to coerce people to behave in a way under the threat of physical violence (physical costs). By combined use of the three weapons, a group can coerce quite effectively, the government can use all those weapons to keep control of its subjects, with most people being controlled by propaganda and lies (moral coercion), others being bought with a position in the bureaucracy (economic coercion) and the rest of the malcontents being suppressed by police force (physical coercion). It’s this simple. There are three ways to coerce people: force or defense(law/military), compensation (trade), and exclusion-inclusion(gossip/morals) These correspond to conservative(saving and defending), libertarian(producing and trading), and progressive(consuming and demanding). And these correspond to the reproductive roles of father(conservative), the brother(libertarian), and the mother and sister(progressive) And that’s because it’s the reproductive strategy of the males, the young, and the females. It’s very simple. We all just negotiate on behalf of our reproductive strategies. All our talk is negotiation on part of our genes. It’s nonsense.

    Strict Construction of Law and Market Government

    Propertarian law evolves by incremental suppression of new forms of parasitism, where the judge discovered common law provides the least time lapse between the invention of parasitism and the construction of law prohibiting it. Strictly constructed law follows from the first principle of non-imposition of costs against demonstrated property, we can use this method of construction to specify contracts, as long as the later (contract) does not infringe upon the former (law). One can think of strict construction as the programming of law and of contracts, where those may refer to other documents, use libraries of operational definitions, define actionable clauses and conditions upon which the involved parties execute those clauses. Market Government refers to the Voluntary Organization of Commons by trade between houses of government, where this trade takes place only when all houses of government agree with the terms. Each of the three classes into which humans divide form a house of market government. Commons refer to material goods and services as well as norms of behavior to which people must comply, in contrast with private goods, humans want to preserve commons, not to consume them, in case of consumption, humans lack incentives to invest in them.

    Informational Commons

    Humans defend commons into which they have invested resources, that follows from the definition of demonstrated property, as such, we can consider information as a commons and prohibit the “pollution” of that commons as we do with other commons such as rivers. As such, a requirement of truthful speech (Testimonialism) forms a new kind of warranty, just like warranties given to the quality of goods and services, we must now warrant any information we use in public discourse about matters of commons. This does not mean that we must prohibit conflationary and inspirational discourse in private, for pedagogical, aesthetic and hypothetical (meaningful) purposes. Testimonialism stands as a warranty in matters of law (and contract), where the discovery of law must pass through all of the criticisms, for this reason we have both empiricism (as in the common law) and operationalism (strict construction).

    Incremental Suppression of Parasitism

    In order to cooperate and expand cooperation, humans require incremental suppression of impositions of cost upon their demonstrated property as relationships move from local to global and become anonymous. At first humans organize in order to partially suppress imposition of costs (criminal), namely violence, this results in innovations on parasitism that moves to theft and fraud (ethical), as those get suppressed, we have private property, but parasitism evolves towards deception and organized forms of parasitism (moral and conspiratorial). As such one can judge the moral state of a polity by comparison with the list of all forms of free-riding and those which they actually suppress by their law. By near total suppression of imposed costs and the absolute nuclear family, we force individuals into market cooperation instead of parasitism (which limits parasitism even within the family), this results in a highly eugenic (meritocratic) civilization which suppresses lower class reproduction. In order to create incentives for the lower classes to abide by rule of law, they’re compensated with dividends obtained in exchange for forgone opportunities of parasitism and for the policing of the commons.

    The Transaction Cost Theory of Government

    At first humans had to deal with small communities where the threat of ostracism almost equals a death threat, but as those groups grew in distance of relationships, so did the incentives to impose costs upon others in favor of oneself and of one’s family. The growth of transaction costs led to a demand for an authority in order to provide dispute resolution, from this, people formed governments as a way to suppress local transaction costs and replace it with a global cost (taxation). The opportunities for rational cooperation created by government resulted in great wealth, a lot of which went into the hands of government. Ideally, suppression of the centralized costs (bureaucratic and political parasitism) would follow, while retaining suppression of the local costs and the commons built under this suppression (particularly, the property definitions themselves). In reality, a class warfare for the control of government went on, which led to democracy, that in practice results in redistribution of the rents to the lower classes (the majority) in a winner takes all contest. From this point on, dysgenia and demand for authority follow. Abcd ( … ) Axiomatic vs Theoretical knowledge Group evolutionary strategies, Family structures, The failure of the enlightenment, the great lies, heroism, personality (autistic vs solipsistic and other issues), demonstrated intelligence