No. I was referring specifically to the type of example used, which was not an example from Mises.

I believe praxeology is all Mises thought it is.

But I believe the deductive-axiomatic method is frequently misunderstood today.

Adam

I didn’t understand the thrust of your post. Are you saying the science of praxeology isn’t all Mises cracked it up to be?

Is praxeology not the axiomatic-deductive science capable of producing true a priori synthetic statements that the Austrians love so much?

The deductive scheme in Misean praxeology is a scheme akin to mathematics or formal logic. It is a “concept scheme”, itself having no material, concrete existence. (e.g. the mathmatical concept of “line”)

Then, the conceptual scheme used to depict and describe real objects and events, is essentially different than that scheme. This latter, is a conceptual scheme used to describe objects in spatio-temporal reality. (such as a human body)

Then the question eventually becomes, what is the “relationship between” the two separate conceptual schemes?

Current libertarian epistemology (or perhaps ontology?)is still trying to “combine” the two schemes in an unsatisfactory way, by trying to conceive that the deductive scheme somehow imparts necessity to the objects or events themselves.(for example, trying to tie the human body to a deductive scheme of scarcity)

Potential problem: The concept of scarcity, is likely itself a material concept, and not a concept of the purely deductive scheme of human action. (scarcity “exists” in the real world of tangible objects, but does not “exist” in a formal-logical scheme [a "mathematical scheme" as it were] of human action.)

So the problem remains in libertarian social science: the proper relationship of the deductive-logical scheme of human action, to, the real objects and events of observed reality.

The problem is likely not solved by applying the concept of scarcity to the human body (as an example), since both are probably concepts used to describe tangible reality. What needs solving, is the relation of the deductive scheme of human action, to the material scheme, of which “scarcity” and “body” are a part.