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Monday, November 26, 2012

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Definitions 8: Doctrine of the Hierarchy of Knowledge. Rand had the habit of drawing dubious premises from trivial premises. With her doctr...
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Friday, November 09, 2012

Ayn Rand & Epistemology 22

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Definitions 7: Doctrine of the Homogenuity of Reality. The doctrine of essentialism, as Karl Popper has noted, regards knowledge as sort of...
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Friday, November 02, 2012

Objectivists And Personal Responsibility

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In which John Aglialoro, the producer of the double-bomb "Atlas Shrugged" series and David Kelley, founder of the Atlas Society an...
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Thursday, November 01, 2012

Ayn Rand & Epistemology 21

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Definitions 6: Doctrine of Essentialism. Karl Popper provides the following gloss on essentialism: Like Plato, Aristotle believed that w...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Looking Forward to Part 3

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Atlas Shrugged Part 2 earned a wretched $91,000 in its third weekend, compared to the $468,000 even its turkey predecessor was bringing in...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Atlas 2: An Even Bigger Bomb?

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No surprises there . Despite opening far wider than its predecessor, it's currently falling even faster and harder. Box Office Mojo...
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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Ayn Rand & Epistemology 20

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Definitions 5: Doctrine of Essence. Rand introduces essences in the chapter on definitions. It is Aristotle who first formulated the p...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Part II Commences

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So far seems to be tracking only slightly ahead of the former, despite being in 3x the number of cinemas this time around. Reviews say it ...
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Friday, October 12, 2012

Ayn Rand & Epistemology 19

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Definitions 4: Doctrine of Definitions as Platonic Ideas. While Rand did not explicitly believe that definitions were analogous to platonic...
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Thursday, October 04, 2012

Ayn Rand & Epistemology 18

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Definitions 3: Doctrine of Anti-Concept and Invalid Concept. In Rand's infamous chapter on definitions in Introduction to the Objectivi...
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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Ayn Rand & Epistemology 17

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Definitions 2: Doctrine of Concepts as the Principle Unit of Knowledge . This doctrine is expounded in Rand's Epistemological workshops:...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Ayn Rand & Epistemology 16

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Definitions 1: The Doctrine of Immaculate Definitions. For Rand, the basic unit of human knowledge is the concept, which she defined as fo...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Ayn Rand & Epistemology 15

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Definitions: Introduction. The heart and soul of Rand's Introduction to Objectivism Epistemology is the chapter on definitions. I have...
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Monday, September 10, 2012

Ayn Rand & Epistemology 14

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Relation of moral concepts to reality. Rand contended that the failure of "modern" philosophers to solve the "problem" ...
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The Objectivization of Cato?

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“Cato will become a more Objectivist organization."  - New president John Allison, via tweet by Arthur Zey.
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Sunday, September 09, 2012

It's Just Like Atlas Shrugged!

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Not.  Here's the number of US Government employees per capita in the last decade. The brief spike in 2010 was the temporary census h...
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Friday, August 31, 2012

Ayn Rand & Epistemology 13

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Universals, definitions, and morality. In the 1949 book Ideas Have Consequences , Richard Weaver advanced the following rather unusual argu...
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Monday, August 27, 2012

Ayn Rand & Epistemolgy 12

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Essences as "epistemological." Rand explains this rather odd juxtaposition of terms as follows: Let us note . . . the radical...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Rand Cultist Quote of the Day

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The ARI's Yaron Brook: “Unless Ayn Rand changes the direction of the world, we are doomed to suffer another dark ages...the next renais...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Ayn Rand & Epistemology 11

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Natural kinds. Rand claimed to have solved the "problem of universals." But it is not clear that she even understood this problem...
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