Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Some old people and their problems
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Herb and Jamaal, 4/14/26 OK, Herb, that’s not what the expression is, first of all, it’s actually about…
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – I feel manly
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(QC RSS) No Place Like Home
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) More like Marty Sun (because of how brightly colored his outfit is)
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Gil Thorp, 4/13/26 Look, in general I’ve been in favor of Marty Moon’s sartorial evolution, but I think…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Hayek and Hormuz by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. The Hayekian claim is that market competition will reduce the degree of error over time. Competition is a discovery process; it doesn’t happen instantaneously. Plus the process works worse, and systematically distorts…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Hayek and Hormuz by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. OK, but why doesn’t defeat the whole point of the theory? Prices are supposed to perform a pragmatic function. They’re supposed to obviate the need for further inquiry beyond the face value-ish inferences you&#…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Hayek and Hormuz by Roderick T. Long
The information included in prices also includes products of entrepreneurial error. This is usually regarded as part of the Hayekian theory. LikeLiked by 1 person
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(Policy of Truth) Hayek and Hormuz
The core idea of Hayek’s famous “The Use of Knowledge in Society” is the claim that prices act as signals that compress vast amounts of dispersed, rapidly-changing information into something that ground-level decisions-makers can use without knowing the underlying details. You don’t have to know anything about oil or gas production to know how much…
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