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| The word freeorder is fundamental to the Explorers Foundation. Here's why that word came into being.
F. A. Hayek, in Volume I, Chapter 3, "Cosmos and Taxis", of Law, Legislation and Liberty (University of Chicago, 1973), suggests this definition of the word "order":
"By 'order' we shall throughout describe a state of affairs in which a multiplicity of elements of various kinds are so related to each other that we may learn from our acquaintance with some spatial or temporal part of the whole to form correct expectations concerning the rest, or at least expectations which have a good chance of proving correct."
Cosmos = Greek for natural order; Taxis = Greek for designed order. Taxis, as in "taxidermy" the deliberate ordering of the skin of animals.
Hayek's brilliance manifested itself in seeing that there is a third kind of order, neither natural nor designed. These orders are "the results of human action but not of human design" and so have been called both "natural" and "designed" leading to endless confusion and discussions that are never resolved.
The word freeorder means "a quest serving balance among designed and spontaneous orders."
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| Every forge has a view into the emergence of freeorder, but each sees only a small part of this immense phenomenon and can record even less. But, many forges, working from a similar devotion to individual explorers, will produce a fabric of lines and knots, woven by many minds, that effectively sums the reality.
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