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Persistent Wondering: February 2013
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Musings from a man who can't stop thinking. Sunday, February 10, 2013. Similarity and Natural Kinds. Ldquo;Similarity”, I think, arises from replaceability. Two objects are similar to the degree to which you could replace one with the other without salient change in the state-of-affairs under analysis. Obviously “salient” and even “change” are terms in need of further analysis. 160; Why are they so apparently efficacious? 160; Just how reliably efficacious are they? David O. Knuttunen. This blog may ra...
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Persistent Wondering: February 2014
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Musings from a man who can't stop thinking. Wednesday, February 5, 2014. One “common sense” argument put forth against socialism, in the (limited) sense of direct government control over the economy, is that the government cannot be trusted to invest wisely. They may keep non-viable enterprises going, for example, pouring in money drawn from better-performing portions of the economy, in order to win votes. As a prima facie. Argument, this strikes me as silly. I just think its reach only extends so far.
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Persistent Wondering: Knuttunen’s Konjecture
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Musings from a man who can't stop thinking. Monday, March 24, 2014. I conjecture that, given any model, M, which conceptually goes to infinity, when M is applied to the real world, and its results are correlated to empirical observations, as M advances in the direction of infinity, eventually the observed nature of the real world results changes, and M no longer even approximately applies. I think this conjecture is saying two things:. 8216;Course, I could be wrong. David O. Knuttunen. My work web site.
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Persistent Wondering: Government control
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Musings from a man who can't stop thinking. Wednesday, February 5, 2014. One “common sense” argument put forth against socialism, in the (limited) sense of direct government control over the economy, is that the government cannot be trusted to invest wisely. They may keep non-viable enterprises going, for example, pouring in money drawn from better-performing portions of the economy, in order to win votes. As a prima facie. Argument, this strikes me as silly. I just think its reach only extends so far.
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Persistent Wondering: Entrepreneurial
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Musings from a man who can't stop thinking. Tuesday, December 23, 2014. Thomas Piketty, on page 572 of. Capital in the 21st Century. Worries that an excessive tax on capital income would “risk killing the motor of accumulation.” He means entrepreneurship. . So what if it did? I begin to suspect that the entrepreneur, as conventionally conceived, is as useless as the capitalist – and I am convinced that the capitalist,. Capitalist, has no social value whatsoever. . Desire for personal wealth is one possi...
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Persistent Wondering: Natural that it be paid
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Musings from a man who can't stop thinking. Monday, December 22, 2014. Natural that it be paid. Thomas Piketty, on page 423 of. Capital in the 21st Century. Says, “If capital plays a useful role in the process of production, it is natural that it should be paid.” Actually, I think it is not. . The resources that go into regulating the “natural” relationship of people to each other’s private property are enormous! David O. Knuttunen. December 24, 2014 at 2:07 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Persistent Wondering: October 2013
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Musings from a man who can't stop thinking. Thursday, October 31, 2013. These thoughts were engendered by some readings in Robert Nozick’s book Philosophical Explanations. In particular the discussion near the end of Ch. 5, Part III on “Deontology and Teleology”, and the preceding sections on the structure of moral rules. I do not think it is necessary to read or have read Nozick’s book in order to follow my meditations, though. I think this connects to some extent the deontological (rules-based) and tel...
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Persistent Wondering: December 2014
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Musings from a man who can't stop thinking. Sunday, December 28, 2014. Speaking the truth, precisely. Ldquo;Nella politica di massa dire la verità è una necessità politica, precisamente.” - Antonio Gramsci. I wrote about another take on this quote back in July of 2010. David O. Knuttunen. Tuesday, December 23, 2014. Thomas Piketty, on page 572 of. Capital in the 21st Century. So what if it did? Capitalist, has no social value whatsoever. . If all capital were socialized, if all decisions about how to all...
