“It is the great quality of verbal propositions that each one is meaningful. Algebraic and logical symbols, as used in logistics, are not in themselves meaningful. Logistics, therefore, is far more suited to the physical sciences, where, in contrast to the science of human action, the conclusions rather than the axioms are known. In the physical sciences, the premises are only hypothetical, and logical deductions are made from them. In these cases, there is no purpose in having meaningful propositions at each step of the way, and therefore symbolic and mathematical language is more useful.” – Murray Rothbard
Physical sciences, as with most of human thinking, start in the middle—it consists both theorization and experimental refutation of such theories. The representation of the latter (i.e., experimental results) can be done with mathematical symbols. But it can be also explained verbally. The specific symbolic forms do not matter, as implied in the interoperability laws of information.
Praxeology consists of axioms and its implications—i.e., explanations.
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- All the way down
- 3-1c2e3.1 It’s symbols all the way down
- 1-1c2 Your ‘explanation’ also contains inexplicit, as well as unconscious, content
- 1-2g3 The sphere of comprehensibility expands infinitely
- 1-2g1 Einstein - ‘No fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.‘
- 5-3a Knowledge via new explanations is inherently creative and its effects are positive-sum, because it begets new problems to be solved