... No, prices are almost always set below that maximum in order to have more than one customer, and because perfect price discrimination is hard. ... The...
... The examples I gave are a variant of the Prisoner's Dilemma. It could be obvious to everyone that cooperation will benefit them, but left to themselves...
... Where you say C is the least desirable outcome, without argument, that is an assumption which begs the question. -- Elliot Temple http://elliottemple.com/...
... People who believe that taxation is bad do not believe that C is the least desirable outcome and that B is the best possible outcome. Jordan [Non-text...
... A Popperian would only say this if they actually started out with the theory that there were no good tasting blueberries. ... If my theory was that...
... I can agree to most or all of what you're saying, and all this is more evidence for (I mean falsification of the negation of) my theory that Popperians are...
... Well, first of all let me repeat that we are in agreement that initiation of force is bad. What I object to only is your tendency to suggest that...
... Yes I can see that. But can't you see that I have given examples (see a previous post of mine) where the Baconian method is not only propper but necessary...
... This is why I wrote, "Suppose further...". It is not question begging because I am not setting out to prove that taxation is good, either in general or in...
... Sometimes I think those of us on this list who do not label themselves TCS or Popperian or something like that are living and thinking on a completely...
... All initiation of force against children by their parents or educators is bad? So children shouldn't be forced by their parents to go to school, or to eat...
... Do you have an argument that taxation (or subsidy) is good, or do you just like to assume it on threads about the free market? -- Elliot Temple ...
... From: Fabric-of-Reality@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Fabric-of-Reality@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Stathis Papaioannou Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 8:12 PM ...
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Keith Green
popper256@...
Mar 3, 2010 9:46 am
... Popper attributes the invention of the first critical tradition not to himself but to Thales, he considered Democritus to have been a good scientist, and...
... No. If you want elaboration, please specify one example you want to consider in which you think knowledge can be created, but is impossible to create via...
... It would be a special kind of coercion in that each person agrees to be coerced provided that everyone else is also coerced on the same basis. It seems...
... Popper was describing the scientific process, so of course he was describing things scientists already do. ... If it is true that non-Popperians describe...
... I don't think anyone said that subsidies could never be for the good. I believe they were talking about forcing one group of people to provide 'subsidies'...
... In that case, since the discussion itself is at least partly about whether taxation is good, it is confusing to use a hypothetical example in which one of...
... What force does is hurt people. And in a conflict, it never finds the truth about which conflicting ideas are correct. Force has zero use for error...
... Do you have an argument? -- Elliot Temple http://fallibleideas.com/...
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ilya kogan
kogani@...
Mar 4, 2010 11:05 am
Dear Fellows, I am looking forward for a review. Sincerely, Ilya Kogan 3/3/10 ... QUANTUM COMPUTER IS ? MIRACLE Ilya Kogan This work provides reasons why the...
... If someone agrees it isn't coercion. It's voluntary. But, dude, not everyone agrees. We're disallowing coercion against the people who don't agree. --...
... We assume that people do only what they consider is best for themselves, not that they follow some ideology. If everyone actually followed a fine-sounding...
... The problem really is with your extremely naive view that rationalism has anything to do with human behavior. People are fully capable of holding...
... Vaccines are an interesting example of a semi-public good - one might call it a second generation public good. For people living now it is not a public...
... This does not follow, at least not so quickly. I am trying to convey 2 points in this regard: 1.It is not fair to attack somebody for something he doesn't...
... There is no problem of public goods, see: http://fallibleideas.com/public-goods But I've actually never found a libertarian before me who would say that....
