“Nothing can be done without preconceived ideas; only there must be the wisdom not to accept their deductions beyond what experiments confirm.” – Louis Pasteur
The general condition (the part of environment that cannot be controlled by the actor, to use the term as defined by Rothbard himself) of the multiverse implies that praxeology cannot be otherwise.revisit
Related:
- 13-6a3 Value scales converge with knowledge—put differently, value scales differentiate without knowledge
- 13-6c1 The action axiom meaningfully implies corresponding value scales only when the action is mediated via corresponding knowledge
- We are blind, as it were—and that is the general condition
- 10-2g2e6a Science is about understanding the whole of reality, of which only an infinitesimal proportion is ever experienced
- 13-6a The same individual exhibits different scale of values at different times
- 13-8a2c Value scales are ascertainable from the real actions, not vice versa—because value scales cannot be exhausted
- 13-9a3 Praxeology is concerned with preference as revealed through choice
- Knowledge is about correspondence with reality
- 1-1c1 The problems arise only when you understand them as conflicts between your existent explanation of the world and the reality out there
- 1-2f1b4a Truth is about how much reality is in a theory
- 1-2g2b2 The Turing principle is also about the correspondence between the two bodies, and knowledge is not necessarily embodied in the human mind
- 1-2g2q1 Science is about independent replication. Only trust as scientific truth what can be independently verified-replicated.
- It starts in the middle
- 1-1a4b You can’t cope with the reality solely via induction or deduction
- 1-1a5a1 The process of argument starts in the middle, and doesn’t start with axioms and end with the conclusion
- 1-2f1b3a Deutsch - ‘Nor is a person capable of making progress merely by virtue of being willing to drop a theory when it is refuted; one must also be seeking a better explanation of the relevant phenomena. That is the scientific frame of mind.‘
- 1-2g2c1 Testability matters only when you have a good explanation (hard-to-vary explanation)
- 5-2b5 Theories precede data
- 5-2b6 Theories need data
- 5-2b7 The skeptical empiricist doubts both data and theory
- On another implication from the general condition of the multiverse