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О здравом смысле
из Мордокниги, поэтому на английском:
I came to believe that there are two very different things called 'common sense', one good and one bad.
The good common sense is at the ultimate foundation of all our knowledge. It's equivalent to all things that we know directly without any experiments (generalizations from observations) or logical deductions. ( Read more... ) -
Mainstream economics is crude psychology masquerading as a rigorous mathematical science
I know that this post may seem just another post by a dogmatic Austrian thrashing the intellectual opponents for the sake of glorifying Mises or Rothbard. But it is not.
Often times the discussions between mainstream economists and the Austrians create an impression that the chief difference between the schools comes down to the question whether it ( Read more... ) -
Блестящая цитата
Если бы существовала Нобелевская премия по философии, ее следовало бы дать Родерику Лонгу за одну эту цитату (отсюда"Our semantic intentions can guarantee a proposition’s truth in virtue of its truth being a precondition for our having those semantic intentions in the first place ( Read more... ) -
Перевели с другом имхо лучшую песню Высоцкого
The paws of the fir trees are trembling in here ( Read more... ) -
Итоги года: взгляды
(копирую с Фэйсбука, поэтому на английском):
It is probably high time now for starting to sum up the year of 2012, and I'll start with the solidification of my views on many aspects of the world into what as I hope is a coherent structure. In this task I was very much helped by 4 years of thinking, blogging and arguing and 6 texts that I would like ( Read more... ) -
Свобода воли и детерминизм
Одной из самых "горячих" тем в современной философии является проблема совместимости свободы воли человека и физического детерминизма. Компатибилисты считают, что несовместимость этих явлений иллюзорна, а нон-компатибилисты - наоборот. У многих нон-компатибилистов из этого следует вывод, что свободу воли (и другие связанные с ней ментальные ( Read more... ) -
Малоизвестный шедевр Ауберона Херберта
In these cases the organism is greater than the part; but with the individual it is not so. He is included in many wholes-his school, his college, his club, his profession, his town or county, his church, his political party, his nation; he forms part of many organisms, but he is always greater than them all. They exist for him; not he for them. ( Read more... ) -
Rational Wonder, not "Rational" Mysticism
Max Borders has written a very thought-provocative and insightful piece calling on libertarians of all stripes to become rational mystics. However, despite all its insightfulness, I believe that ultimately libertarians should not heed to Borders’s main points of advice ( Read more... )
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