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Following a reflection on the method of rational reconstruction, the golden thread running through the book is recapitulated, emphasizing the new or controversial claims: Ludwig von Mises explicated praxeology in order to solve the problem of induction for the social sciences. Praxeology framed and defended as a conventionalist research program, accompanied by thymology and other empirical disciplines, is a legitimate and promising scientific endeavor with points of contact to mainstream economics and philosophy of science. The last words are surrendered to Richard von Mises.
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One of the few papers that vehemently opposes the claim that experience was unimportant to Mises is (Leeson and Boettke 2006). It contains a pragmatist turn on Mises as well, which has some reminiscence to the conventionalist interpretation.
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Linsbichler, A. (2017). Recapitulation and Final Thoughts. In: Was Ludwig von Mises a Conventionalist?. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46170-0_9
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