DEFINITION: “PSEUDOSCIENCE” pseu·do·sci·ence ˌso͞odōˈsīəns noun: pseudoscience; plural noun: pseudosciences; noun: pseudo-science; plural noun: pseudo-sciences 1. is a claim, belief or practice which is presented as scientific, but does not adhere to the scientific method. [I] use the following criteria to determine whether something is a pseudoscience: 1) One must claim it is scientific 2) Yet the method does not adhere to the scientific method. That is the minimum criteria. The following criteria serve to further falsify claims: 3) (optional) Method does not produce results it claims to. 4) (optional) Is not or cannot be stated in operational language. 5) (optional) Is not or cannot be constrained by testable correspondence with reality. By these criteria Praxeology fails as a science, as all axiomatic systems must fail as sciences. However, it is possible to state that we can study the science of cooperation (economics) and as such produce theories that for deductive purposes we may treat axiomatically, although the results of that deduction must still be tested by correspondence with reality, and falsified. Emergent properties must be tested empirically, and experiential properties can be tested experientially, if articulated as human actions. For these reasons human cooperation can be termed a science, and we can construct a formal grammar of cooperation. Something akin to praxeology can be constructed as a formal logic of cooperation, but it will, as all axiomatic systems must be, constrained by correspondence with reality.
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Definition of "Pseudoscience"
DEFINITION: “PSEUDOSCIENCE” pseu·do·sci·ence ˌso͞odōˈsīəns noun: pseudoscience; plural noun: pseudosciences; noun: pseudo-science; plural noun: pseudo-sciences 1. is a claim, belief or practice which is presented as scientific, but does not adhere to the scientific method. [I] use the following criteria to determine whether something is a pseudoscience: 1) One must claim it is scientific 2) Yet the method does not adhere to the scientific method. That is the minimum criteria. The following criteria serve to further falsify claims: 3) (optional) Method does not produce results it claims to. 4) (optional) Is not or cannot be stated in operational language. 5) (optional) Is not or cannot be constrained by testable correspondence with reality. By these criteria Praxeology fails as a science, as all axiomatic systems must fail as sciences. However, it is possible to state that we can study the science of cooperation (economics) and as such produce theories that for deductive purposes we may treat axiomatically, although the results of that deduction must still be tested by correspondence with reality, and falsified. Emergent properties must be tested empirically, and experiential properties can be tested experientially, if articulated as human actions. For these reasons human cooperation can be termed a science, and we can construct a formal grammar of cooperation. Something akin to praxeology can be constructed as a formal logic of cooperation, but it will, as all axiomatic systems must be, constrained by correspondence with reality.
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Definition of “Pseudoscience”
DEFINITION: “PSEUDOSCIENCE” pseu·do·sci·ence ˌso͞odōˈsīəns noun: pseudoscience; plural noun: pseudosciences; noun: pseudo-science; plural noun: pseudo-sciences 1. is a claim, belief or practice which is presented as scientific, but does not adhere to the scientific method. [I] use the following criteria to determine whether something is a pseudoscience: 1) One must claim it is scientific 2) Yet the method does not adhere to the scientific method. That is the minimum criteria. The following criteria serve to further falsify claims: 3) (optional) Method does not produce results it claims to. 4) (optional) Is not or cannot be stated in operational language. 5) (optional) Is not or cannot be constrained by testable correspondence with reality. By these criteria Praxeology fails as a science, as all axiomatic systems must fail as sciences. However, it is possible to state that we can study the science of cooperation (economics) and as such produce theories that for deductive purposes we may treat axiomatically, although the results of that deduction must still be tested by correspondence with reality, and falsified. Emergent properties must be tested empirically, and experiential properties can be tested experientially, if articulated as human actions. For these reasons human cooperation can be termed a science, and we can construct a formal grammar of cooperation. Something akin to praxeology can be constructed as a formal logic of cooperation, but it will, as all axiomatic systems must be, constrained by correspondence with reality.
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The End Of Ghetto Libertarianism
[F]acts: 1) Praxeology is a pseudoscience 2) Rothbardian ethics are parasitic 3) Argumentation is descriptive not causal. 4) Private property alone is insufficient to eliminate demand for the state 5) Rights cannot exist without context of contract. 6) Property is what remains when all free riding is forcibly suppressed, meaning that it’s not a binary proposition open to intersubjective verifiability. 7) The Absolute Nuclear Family is necessary for suppression of demand for the state, and therefore liberty is the desire of a permanent minority who practice the ANF. Libertarianism was yet another pseudoscientific failure. Ethical Realism, Propertarianism, and Aristocratic Egalitarianism correct the errors of immoral libertarianism.
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The End Of Ghetto Libertarianism
[F]acts: 1) Praxeology is a pseudoscience 2) Rothbardian ethics are parasitic 3) Argumentation is descriptive not causal. 4) Private property alone is insufficient to eliminate demand for the state 5) Rights cannot exist without context of contract. 6) Property is what remains when all free riding is forcibly suppressed, meaning that it’s not a binary proposition open to intersubjective verifiability. 7) The Absolute Nuclear Family is necessary for suppression of demand for the state, and therefore liberty is the desire of a permanent minority who practice the ANF. Libertarianism was yet another pseudoscientific failure. Ethical Realism, Propertarianism, and Aristocratic Egalitarianism correct the errors of immoral libertarianism.
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The 'Tells' Of Continental, Cosmopolitan And Enlightenment Arguments
(important) [T]he signature property (the ‘tell’) of continental argument is conflation, in which the purpose of argument is an attempt to construct authority. (German and French) Signature property (the ‘tell’) of cosmopolitan thought is ‘the prestige’ (distraction), in which the purpose of an argument is to distract from the central, more obvious one by means of cunning. (Jewish). The signature property (the ‘tell’) of anglo enlightenment thought is the assumption of universalism. These three ‘tells’ are all means of deception and error in order to justify the metaphysical assumption about what is ‘good’.
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The ‘Tells’ Of Continental, Cosmopolitan And Enlightenment Arguments
(important) [T]he signature property (the ‘tell’) of continental argument is conflation, in which the purpose of argument is an attempt to construct authority. (German and French) Signature property (the ‘tell’) of cosmopolitan thought is ‘the prestige’ (distraction), in which the purpose of an argument is to distract from the central, more obvious one by means of cunning. (Jewish). The signature property (the ‘tell’) of anglo enlightenment thought is the assumption of universalism. These three ‘tells’ are all means of deception and error in order to justify the metaphysical assumption about what is ‘good’.
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The 'Tells' Of Continental, Cosmopolitan And Enlightenment Arguments
(important) [T]he signature property (the ‘tell’) of continental argument is conflation, in which the purpose of argument is an attempt to construct authority. (German and French) Signature property (the ‘tell’) of cosmopolitan thought is ‘the prestige’ (distraction), in which the purpose of an argument is to distract from the central, more obvious one by means of cunning. (Jewish). The signature property (the ‘tell’) of anglo enlightenment thought is the assumption of universalism. These three ‘tells’ are all means of deception and error in order to justify the metaphysical assumption about what is ‘good’.
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The ‘Tells’ Of Continental, Cosmopolitan And Enlightenment Arguments
(important) [T]he signature property (the ‘tell’) of continental argument is conflation, in which the purpose of argument is an attempt to construct authority. (German and French) Signature property (the ‘tell’) of cosmopolitan thought is ‘the prestige’ (distraction), in which the purpose of an argument is to distract from the central, more obvious one by means of cunning. (Jewish). The signature property (the ‘tell’) of anglo enlightenment thought is the assumption of universalism. These three ‘tells’ are all means of deception and error in order to justify the metaphysical assumption about what is ‘good’.
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The Attestation Theory Of Truth
[I] supposed I should state this clearly, and probably write a little history of Truth in order to get across why we tend to use Platonic truth. But I’ll have to get to that in my chapter on Truth. If we require, as does science, that we reduce all statements to operational language, then what action are we describing when we use the term ‘Truth”? We are using its original meaning as “as true as possible given the best of my abilities”. All other truths are platonist. Described as human action, ‘Truth’ can only describe attestation because it is only such attestation that can be brought into observable existence. This solves the long standing problem of the hierarchy of truth. Cheers.