"Homesteading in a circle". Dr. Walter Block's limitations on homesteading.

[ClaytonB]

But isn’t it true that they are deriving these rules based on reason/logic and the principle of homesteading (at least in this case). Are you somehow looking for a non-normative view of law (in which case I presume you would not necessarily accept homesteading or any theory of property rights other than that which arises naturally)?

My views are explained at length here.

I would object to using the empirical approach because it suffers from the bias of positivism. In using the empirical approach you must also resort to logic to interpret your observations. So I say for the sake of discussion that we speculate that homesteading will arise as a principle in SOME free societies and see where logic will necessarily take us.

Whoever said we can’t use logic? The use of empirical evidence does not positivism make. Do you believe that you must be a positivist in order to say, “the particulars of human anatomy are empirical facts”?

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