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Austrian Economics versus Keynesian and Monetarist Macroeconomics

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A Baby-in-a-Womb as an Entity

A Consciousness Conscious Only of Itself

A Physical Description of Entities does not Negate The Metaphysical Status of Sensory Qualities

A Physical Description of Entities does not Negate Their Existence

A Physical Description of Entities is the Realm of Physics, not Philosophy

A Physical Explanation for Consciousness or Free Will does not Negate Their Existence

All Knowledge is Either Perceptual or Conceptual

An Anthropogenic Theory of Value

Anarcho-Capitalism

Argumentative Soundness

Argumentative Validity

Arguments from Defining God into Existence

Austrian Economics

Axioms as Irreducible Primaries

Axioms as Undeniable

Broad Physical Categories (BPC)

Bundled Philosophy

Causal Connections (BPC)

Characteristics vs. Properties (BPC)

Commensurability

Common Bromides

Companions in Guilt

Concept-Formation as an Algebraic Process

Concepts of Consciousness as Involving Measurement-Omission

Conceptual Common Denominator

Conceptual Order

Conditioning Connections (BPC)

Conscious Action

Conscious Content

Consciousness as a non-Entity

Consciousness as Naturalistic

Consciousness as Unscientific Because it Cannot be Defined

Consciousness Has an Object and a Subject

Consciousness is a Biological Faculty

Consciousness is an Active Process

Constituent and Composite Entities (BPC)

Different Forms of Sense Perception does not Invalidate Sense Perception

Different Forms of Sense Perception Lead to Different Capabilities in Deducing Laws

Differentiation

Dismissing the Arbitrary

Does Omnipotence Include The Ability to make Contradictions True

Entity and Property (BPC)

Epistemic Authoritarianism

Epistemic Units as Objective

Epistemology as Dependent Upon the Fallibility of a Conceptual Consciousness

Epistemology as Dependent Upon the Primacy of Existence

Examples of Entities

Existence Exists

Existence is Identity

Fallacy of Reification of the Zero

Fire as a non-Entity

Floating Abstraction

Focus as Antecedent to Any Choice

Forms of the Primacy of Consciousness

Four Conditioning Connections (BPC)

Four Fundamentals Characteristics of Consciousness

God as a Miracle-Worker

God as a Pure Self-Consciousness

God as a Rejection of the Basic Axioms

God as Infinite

God as Omnipotent

God as the Creator

God as the Designer

Hallucinations do not Negate the Validity of the Senses

How Essential Is Praxeology to Philosophy

How Much Time Has There Been

Human Action is Undeniable

Idealism as a Rejection of the Basic Axioms

Illusions are not Perceptual Errors

Infinity as a Floating Abstraction

Innate Knowledge as a Violation of Causality

Johnny Cochran at the O.J. Trial Claiming a Police Conspiracy

Libertarian Free Will

Logical Fallacies

Material and Formal Entities (BPC)

Materialism as a Rejection of the Basic Axioms

Matter and Form (BPC)

Measurement Relationships

Mental Focus as Having Degrees

Metaphysically Given

Miracles are a Metaphysical Impossibility

Mysticism as Invalid

Mystics of Spirit

Naive Anarchism as a Package Deal

Necessary Connections (BPC)

Nominalism iff Sensualism

Objectivism does not Hold that Consciousness is an Entity

Onus of Proof Principle

Past Lives as an Example of The Arbitrary

Primacy of the Personal Consciousness

Primacy of the Social Consciousness

Primacy of the Supernatural Consciousness

Psychological Inertia

Recklessness and Negligence

Rejections of the Basic Axioms

Relationship (BPC)

Self-Evident vs. Obvious

Sense Perception

Sensory Subjectivism

Skyscrapers as the True Dimensions of Man

Spiritual vs Material

The Arbitrary as Neither True nor False

The Attack on the Senses by Being Effects

The Attack on the Senses by Eddington's Two Tables

The Attack on the Senses from their Limitation

The Axiom of Consciousness

The Categories of Being

The Characteristics of Entities

The Conflation of Empiricism and Nominalism-Sensualism

The Decivilizing Effect of Taxation

The Determinist-Indeterminist False-Dichotomy

The Differing Challenges of Explicating a Standard of Measurement

The Economic Calculation Problem

The Epistemic Primacy of Sense Perception

The Epistemic Role of Measurement

The Epistemic Sense of Objectivity

The Error in Regarding the Man-Made as Immutable

The Error in Regarding the Metaphysically Given as Mutable

The Error of Conflating Ownership with Possesion

The Error of Conflating the Man-Made with the Metaphysically Given

The Error of Conflating the Potential with the Actual

The Error of Mechanistic Causality

The Failure of Mixed Law

The Four Causes (BPC)

The Fundamental Axioms of Metaphysics

The Grand Canyon Argument

The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle as a Refutation of Causality

The Identity of Consciousness as the Root of Epistemology

The Impossibility of Gaining Omniscence

The Impossibility of Unlimited Senses

The Interrelation of Evasion and Drift

The Invalidity of the Senses Implies The Invalidity of Knowledge

The Kantian Attack on Cognition

The Law of Causality

The Law of Identity

The Laws of Logic

The Levels of Consciousness

The Locus of Human Free Will

The Materialist-Idealist False Dichotomy

The Meaning of Objectivity

The Metaphysical Sense of Objectivity

The Metaphysical Status of Concepts

The Metaphysical Status of Sensory Qualities

The Metaphysically Given as Absolute

The Mind-Body Conflict

The Objectivist Theory of Concept Formation as Valid

The Objectivist Theory of Concepts

The Plane Crash Example

The Pre-Requisites of Epistemology

The Primacy of Consciousness as the Fundamental Error

The Primacy of Existence as an Objectivist Innovation

The Primacy of Existence vs The Primacy of Consciousness

The Primary Choice Being Focus or Drift

The Psychological Effects of Regarding the Metaphysically Given as Mutable

The Requirements of a Standard of Measurement

The Role of Definition for a Conceptual Being

The Role of Language for a Conceptual Being

The Role of the Senses

The Secondary Choice as Being Motivated

The Secondary Choice Being The Choice to Think or Evade

The Senses as Condensing Complex Information

The Senses as Distorted Implies Non-Consciousness

The Senses Do Not Distort

The Sensory-Perceptual Level as Automatic

The Stolen Concept Fallacy

The Timaeus on the Imperfection of Reality

The Universe as Eternal

The Validation of Free Will

The Validation of Negative Propositions

The Validation of Sense Perception

Unit (Epistemology)

Why Objectivism Rejects Agnosticism

Why The Onus of Proof Principle Does Not Apply Equally to Negatives

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God as the Designer

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God As The Designer

Is God the designer of the universe? Not if A is A. The alternative to "design" is not "chance." It is causality.^[1]

OPAR, p. 31 ↩︎

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