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Thursday, January 31, 2013

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Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy 2: Facts empirical, logic ideal. This subject was fleshed out in an earlier post in my series of on Rand'...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

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Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy 1: Intro. From the confusions of Rand's theory of definitions we descend into the incoherencies of Peikoff...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

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Definitions: postscript. Many Objectivists and even some non-Objectivists have difficulty understanding what is wrong with Rand's view ...
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Monday, January 07, 2013

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Definitions: conclusion. Rand's theory of definitions constitutes one of the most Aristolean aspects of her philosophy. There are, to b...
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Saturday, January 05, 2013

Twinkies Are The New Rearden Metal.

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Who knew?
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Friday, January 04, 2013

"100 Voices" Reviewed

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Occasional ARCHNblog contributor Neil Parille takes a look at the Ayn Rand Institute's latest retouching job: "100 Voices: An Oral...
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Monday, December 17, 2012

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Definitions 10: Doctrine of Ostensive Definition. In my last post, I noted that definitions lead to an infinite regress. Once a word has be...
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Tuesday, December 04, 2012

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Definitions 9: Doctrine of Verbalism. Rand is very clear on the relation between knowledge and definitions: The truth or falsehood of a...
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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