Praxeology is the deduction of what someone wants from their actions. It’s actually highly relevant to author skills – I use it constantly.
Praxeology has very little to do with what someone says. Most folks in most things have a public agenda and a real (private) agenda. They’ll say what supports their public agenda, but they will do what supports their real (private) agenda.
Praxeology is rarely an immediate and certain knowledge of what someone wants. Most often, its immediate result is certain knowledge that their private agenda differs from their public agenda. But figuring out what that private agenda is generally takes an extended period of observation, and even then it may not be what mathematicians call a ‘unique’ solution. In short, it can be wrong.
Military planners and strategists use praxeology routinely. What our rivals and our allies are really after can be far more accurately ascertained by watching what they do than by paying attention to what they say.
One of praxeoogy’s favorite sayings is “What you do speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you say.”
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