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Having elucidated the role of the a priori of discovery with respect to the associated patterns of logic, causation, and teleology, it is time to show how these relate to evolution in action through learning . This relationship can be seen through the mental experiment involving a human actor facing the world and orienting himself to his situation.
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Of course, the principle of identity may be argued to be prior to that of non-contradiction, but this debate is not of great concern to the current discussion.
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Possible as in “why not?”, not as in “sure one could!”.
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Note that the form of the argument here is an imaginary construction of a mind without worldly experience beyond what is necessary to grasp the principle of non-contradiction.
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We are now introducing change, like Mises does with the evenly rotating economy, to understand what will happen.
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Tonsberg, T.A., Henderson, J.S. (2016). The Logic of Perceived Possibilities—Praxeology and the Process of Evolutionary Learning. In: Understanding Leadership in Complex Systems. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40445-5_16
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