Archive for March 9th, 2008
Drugs in the Water Supply!
“They” are trying to turn us into obedient slaves! Well, not exactly, and there are easier ways. (Write columns for the NY Times, for example.) But here is an example of a private company blowing the lid off the problems with government water which, according at least to the NYC government, “continues to meet all [...]
Posted: March 9th, 2008 under Economics, Science.
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Why Is a Town a Natural Human Association?
I argued previously that government should not have a scope larger than that of a county or a town. But what makes a town special? Why not go below it and talk about independent town districts and neighborhoods and condo associations and finally private properties? It seems to me that the naturalness of a town [...]
Posted: March 9th, 2008 under Economics.
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What Is “Essence”?
The essence of a thing is defined as what that thing is. So, given an arbitrary thing, what is it? What it is, I’d like to argue, is a set of its powers. These powers can be both passive, corresponding to a thing’s potentialities, and active, corresponding to its actualities. The powers are not limited [...]
Posted: March 9th, 2008 under Metaphysics, Philosophy.
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