The Slave Trade?

[Inquisitor]

loweleif:

If you believe in empirical validity then may I ask, how much of the Austrian Economic School do you subscribe to?

What has this to do with the Austrian School? The Austrian School rejects empiricism-positivism as grounds for sound epistemology (especially with regard to praxeological theorems), not the validity of empirical facts…

If you want to discuss methodology, I suggest going here:

For the methodologically inclined

Here’s a rather good article by G. A. Plauche on Austrian methodology and Aristotelean apriorism. http://www.veritasnoctis.net/docs/aristotelianapriorism.pdf It’s doubly worth reading because it makes it clearer what praxeology consists in.

Reading the article would be a good idea too.