For how long does an individual’s value scale direct his near-term actions, do you suppose? At what point does he form a new one?

Wow. That’s pretty cool. Pretty crazy if accurate. But, (a) It’s not a full blown theory of human behavior; and (b) It’s a LONG way off from being such…These guys are only testing motor neurons vis-a’-vis our limbs and apendages—not idea formation or ratiocination. Still, really interesting.

What does it mean to prefer A to B? It won’t be possible to even address that question without resorting to explaining the causal connections, between, on one hand, some way of thinking, and, on the other hand, a way or moving or another way of thinking. How could we explain what the “will” is wit…

Without explaining where to observe wanting and believing, praxeology would just be a bunch of arbitrary, formal relationships between propositions. It isn’t an accident, that, when somebody asks what wanting or believing even are, they usually get the response that trying to deny trying is still t…

It doesn’t debunk anything. Praxeological laws only rely on the existence of preference. To explain how something works and to disprove its existence are very different things.

Of course, methodological dualism and the application of praxeological methods rather than tracing human action completely and deterministically from its external, physical impulses is a methodological compromise based on our incomplete knowledge of this sphere of causal relations as Mises repeated…

@IRyan Ha. I see (better) where you’re coming from now. Thanks. Praxeology is like mathematics: a bunch of formal relationships. These aren’t “arbitrary” relationships though. Therefore, people don’t question the truth of mathematics. Why should they question the formal relationships of praxeolog…

@IRyan Sure it can. Wanting is defined as either (1) having an end in mind; or (2) preferring and therefore choosing one thing vs. another thing. Believing (i.e. truth) is defined as that which can be deduced from our understanding of the regularity of cause and effect in the external world. Wha…

What is an “end in mind”? What is “preferring”? And what is “choosing one thing vs. another thing”? Can I observe any of these things? What are they? Where could I find them? I didn’t mean for “believing” to be synonymous with truth. What does it mean to “deduce” something from our “understanding…

I’m not doubting these justifications. We need to understand something really important: Deductions are much less mystical than most people act like they are. Deducing something means something which might seem pretty unremarkable: It means that the words which you just said mean the same thing as …

what's the duration of an individual's value scale?

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No, I have that under control in this post.

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