Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of human conduct.
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- noun the study of
human action orconduct
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Max, what is nonsensical about the term praxeology?
Joe Salerno on The Austrian Movement - The Austrian Economists 2007
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ANY academic economist worth his/her salt should be able to find out with ease what the word praxeology means.
Joe Salerno on The Austrian Movement - The Austrian Economists 2007
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I would point out one glaring factually incorrect Block makes, in analogizing "praxeology" with geometry.
Freedom Democrats - Online Community for Libertarian Democrats 2010
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I would point out one glaring factually incorrect Block makes, in analogizing "praxeology" with geometry.
Freedom Democrats - Online Community for Libertarian Democrats 2010
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While Austrian theorists are focused on human action (Austrians call this analysis "praxeology"), the modelers overlook the purposeful behavior of decision making.
Mises Dailies 2009
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Empirical observations without logical foundation is worth little without logical interpretation (i.e. comparing in the light of praxeology) just as pure reasoning divorced from empirical observations would be just as worth less.
Empiricism and Dogma, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Recognizing natural limitations, and the elusive nature of human action will help us resist approaching praxeology as a static model.
Why Oh Why Can't Hayek Write Better?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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John, I think you truly do want a better society, but your approach via socialism is without complete understanding of praxeology (the theory of human action - of which Mises "Human Action" and a more complete basis for all optimal human action is described by the Theory of Social Meta-Needs).
OpEdNews - Diary: Socialism by Any Name is Not an Alternative to What Currently Exists 2008
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However, your apparent fascination with socialism is without complete understanding of it, and none of praxeology (the theory of human action - of which Mises "Human Action" and a more complete basis for all optimal human action is described by the Theory of Social Meta-Needs).
OpEdNews - Diary: Knowledge and Its Understanding of Value Requires Reasoned Thought 2008
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But it is no less certain that they are entirely wrong in their endeavors to reject any kind of a priori knowledge and to characterize logic, mathematics, and praxeology either as empirical and experimental disciplines or as mere tautologies
reesetee commented on the word praxeology
Also spelled praxiology.
October 24, 2008
qms commented on the word praxeology
In Austria the tedious fact is
That fashion wanes and then waxes.
But you can be sure
The -ology du jour
Is somehow related to praxis.
November 15, 2014
qms commented on the word praxeology
The changes in hackney ecology
Beget fields of new praxeology.
Academia's gift
To Uber and Lyft
Is work in applied taxiology.
February 17, 2016