Running Out of Money?

    “You can never be too rich or too thin” (or something like that) said, uh, somebody or other . . . maybe — it’s attributed to a bunch of people few members of the public today ever heard of.  Leaving aside the “too thin” bit as a bit beyond our competence, we’ll focus on whether you can be “too rich.”  Quick answer: yes, you can be too rich, especially if no one else has any money . . . money here defined as “all things transferred in commerce.”  (That’s in Black’s Law Dictionary, at least the edition we have.)

JTW Podcast: Contemporary Logic, Part III: Current Predicate Logic

This week’s podcast continues the series on contemporary logic.  Yet again, this podcast is for informational purposes since we have no intention of ever abandoning Aristotle, but there are useful things besides information in the different schools of thought.  As Professor Dave says, “We just introduced a lot of notation in order to understand post-Fregean predicate logic. So now let's look at some concepts behind this type of logical thought so that we can compare it to earlier types of logic. In doing so we will wrap up our study of contemporary logic.”:

News from the Network, Vol. 19, No. 03

Again, this week’s news items illustrate what we think is a growing divide between reality and what the powers-that-be would like to be the case.  As the Roman poet Horace said, however, you can chase Nature — reality — out with a pitchfork, but she always comes back.  To avoid having to try and create your own reality and become more truthful (truth, after all, means conformity with reality), people need the power to become virtuous, and — as we have repeated early and often on this blog, quoting Daniel Webster — “Power naturally and necessarily follows property.”  That being the case, the obvious thing for the powers-that-be to do is to adopt the Economic Democracy Act:

Trump’s Morality and the Natural Law

It is a pillar of Aristotelian-Thomist philosophy that the natural law — knowledge of right and wrong constituting the general code of human behavior — can be known by the force and light of human reason alone.  This is because (in Aristotelian-Thomist philosophy) human beings “participate” in God’s Nature, and therefore reason the way God does, at least analogously, and in a far more limited scope.

JTW Podcast: Contemporary Logic, Part II: Current Systems and Methods

 Today, we continue the series on contemporary logic.  Again, this podcast is for informational purposes since we have no intention of ever abandoning Aristotle, but there are useful things besides information in the different schools of thought.  As Professor Dave says, “We just learned about the Fregean revolution, but we have actually adapted logic further still, so let's see what we have been doing with Frege's theory ever since. This will involve learning some new symbols and notation. Let's dive right in!”:

News from the Network, Vol. 19, No. 02

Housing costs and debt seem to be at the top of the list of concerns for many people this week.  We see that reflected in the warnings about the rising national debt of the United States and concerns about housing affordability.  Both could be solved by adopting the Economic Democracy Act, which of course could include the Homeowners Equity Corporation (HEC):

Whither Venezuela?

 After spending most of the first part of this week bemoaning the effect of AI on readin’ and ritin’ after viewing several videos on the subject — we ain’t got no information on no ’rithmetic — we decided to surrender to the machine (while reserving the right to criticize such dependency at such time as we are no longer pressed for time and can take the time to write something ourselves) and steal a summary one of the AI programs generated for a proposal the Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ) put forward a number of years ago and dusted off in light of what we can euphemistically call “recent events.”

JTW Podcast: Contemporary Logic, Part I: Frege’s Revolution

Today, we get into logic.  Today’s podcast is for informational purposes since we have no intention of ever abandoning Aristotle, but there are useful things besides information in the different schools of thought.  As Professor Dave says, “When it comes to logic, there are two figures that stand head and shoulders above the rest. Aristotle defined logic and developed the field profoundly, and as such Aristotelian logic reigned supreme for over 2000 years. But eventually figures like Leibniz and Boole attempted to develop a system of logic that intertwined with a mathematical approach, an endeavor that finally came to fruition with Gottlob Frege, the second giant in logic. What was Frege’s revolution? Let’s get some more details!:

News from the Network, Vol. 19, No. 01

 Welcome to the first “News from the Network” for 2026.  Unfortunately, that’s all that’s new.  The rest — as you can see — sounds depressingly the same.  What we need is immediate adoption of the Economic Democracy Act, and when that is going to happen is anyone’s guess: