Necessary Facts

Observations, reports, and discoveries that are true of necessity because they are perceivable and reasonable, empirical and logical, evidentiary and rational, synthetic and analytic. Truths are objective statements.

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Monday, August 31, 2026

The 2026 World’s Fair of Money

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For the first time since 2019, I attended the annual summer convention of the American Numismatic Association, branded as The World’s Fair o...

Sunday, March 30, 2025

“Money Talks” of the American Numismatic Association

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As a longtime admirer of the works of Ayn Rand, I hold money in high regard. The origin of money is in ritual gift exchange, rather than in ...

Friday, October 8, 2021

Long ago Miletus was great.

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In five generations from 650 BCE to 500 BCE --a span from your grandparents to your grandchildren--civilization was transformed by the conf...

Sunday, September 12, 2021

The Mercury Dime

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When I first was given the opportunity to choose my own username on a mainframe computer (actually, a DEC VAX super-mini) in 1989, I asked f...

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

MARIA MITCHELL QUARTER DOLLAR CIRCULATING COMMEMORATIVE

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Maria Mitchell deserves to be honored on the newest series of U.S. circulating commemorative quarter dollars, 2022-2025. She was the first A...

Saturday, January 2, 2021

Ten Years of Necessary Facts

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This blog was launched on 2 January 2011. It was inspired by Gregory Browne’s Necessary Factual Truths (University Press of America, 2001)...

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