Property - Demonstrated interest.  People demonstrates interest by investment, (bears the costs, including opportunity costs and exposure to risk). This includes self, personal property, shareholder property, commons, kinship, cooperation and formal and informal institutions. Different categories of property necessitate different rights and under rule of law, all are protected against irreciprocity (predation and parasitism).

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We should start with the idea of “imposition of costs”, as it is key to how property itself can be acquired. Essentially, costs are imposed when the quality of something is diminished. For example, if I burn your house down, a cost has very clearly been imposed, as it will require effort/money to restore it to its former state. The second element of this definition is the idea of retaliation. ,This is the true defining characteristic of property, as the purpose of property is to avoid conflict so that cooperation can flourish. Individuals and organizations demonstrate something is property by defending it. Thus, this entire definition allows for humanity to empirically, as opposed to normatively, discover exactly what we should consider to be property. Instead of having a universal definition of property we are working on a empirical one

 

 

Reciprocity - State of equilibrium (non-conflict) between People. Exchanges are reciprocal when they do not generate demand for restitution or retaliation. Such exchanges are voluntary, productive, exhaustively informed such that no hazard occurs, exchange of demonstrated interests without impostion of cost on demonstrated interests of others, and warrantied with replacement, repair or restitution, if despite due diligence, costs are imposed or hazard occurs.

 

Operationalism - Language limited to sequence of actions that forces empirical (existential) description as a means of avoiding to hand waving, obscurantism, suggestion and deceit. Notably, this prohibits the use of verb "to be".

 

Testimonialism - Speech in promissory form and operational prose from an observer's point of view, including all changes of state and their consequences, producing a series of testable transactions. The criteria for testimonial (truthful) speech are existential, logical, empirical and operational possibility, survivability, rational choice, reciprocity, parsimony, satisfaction of demand for infallibility and warranty for performing due diligence against error, bias and deceit in all of these and providing restitution in case of error despite performing due diligence.

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