tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post6124348156261417518..comments2024-03-27T05:47:21.295-07:00Comments on Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature: Ayn Rand & Epistemology 46Daniel Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06359277853862225286noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-82826460416329636452013-10-12T15:24:54.535-07:002013-10-12T15:24:54.535-07:00Children learn all (or at least nearly all) of the...<i>Children learn all (or at least nearly all) of their meanings from the words spoken around them.</i><br /><br />I can't find it now, but somewhere I recently read something to the effect of: "Babies are amazing and a little creepy. Every one of them hears people around them making noises, independently invents the concept of language, and deduces the grammatical rules of a language (or several) simply by observation, all by the age of four. You may think all they do is poop, but while you're changing the diaper they're working out subject-verb agreement."<br /><br />Could be XKCD, sounds like him, but one of the things I'm sure of is the reference to subject-verb agreement and an XKCD search doesn't find it.Kennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-36352488595048924782013-10-03T22:43:17.935-07:002013-10-03T22:43:17.935-07:00Somehow, I can't picture Quantty typing "...Somehow, I can't picture Quantty typing "lol" with anything beyond the sternest of frowns on his face.<br /><br />Anyone who gets this worked up over imagined wrongs can't actually ever laugh, can they?Jzeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-44966554282884691502013-10-03T00:13:36.424-07:002013-10-03T00:13:36.424-07:00@Jzero
"what constitutes a royal a-hole"...@Jzero<br /><br />"what constitutes a royal a-hole"<br /><br />Don't forget to include yourself and Burkowski as well, with his childish randroid insult.<br /><br />LOL! QuantumHaecceityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10939627623915545949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-89826275722186434782013-10-02T22:11:56.970-07:002013-10-02T22:11:56.970-07:00And of course Quantty easily demonstrates with his...And of course Quantty easily demonstrates with his own actions just what constitutes a "royal a-hole".Jzeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-57222237948506299362013-10-02T03:04:18.637-07:002013-10-02T03:04:18.637-07:00A fine review of the film adaptation of Atlas Shru...A fine review of the film adaptation of Atlas Shrugged appeared on the Amazon website about five months ago. It comes from a fan of the novel who is understandably devastated by the sheer incompetence of the movie. Here’s one particularly choice excerpt:<br /><br />“In one scene the tall, ominous shadowy figure of John Galt easily has access to oil and gas fat-cat Ellis Wyatt's unfenced, un-gated, un-patrolled property and his resplendent Victorian mansion nestled somewhere in the Colorado Rockies. Of course, Wyatt answers his own front door in the middle of the night, without looking at a security monitor, without a dog by his side or handgun in his hand. Tall, ominous, shadowy men in trench coats and Fedoras apparently often make the rounds at night to remote Victorian mansions in the Rockies just to talk and spirit rich industrialists away to a land of milk and honey.”<br /><br />The review is hard to find, as it was soon drowned in the usual flood of mindless 5-star randroid notices in praise of Mr. Aglialoro’s cinematic train wreck. For the rest of the review, see:<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/review/R1BPJPLIG2NXJC/ref=cm_srch_res_rtr_alt_1<br />Gordon Burkowskinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-12656373695977316012013-10-01T15:12:29.284-07:002013-10-01T15:12:29.284-07:00"Are there enough people out their willing to..."Are there enough people out their willing to throw away money so a third part of Atlas"<br /><br /><br />Once again we see the hateful and vindictive mindset that undergird's this website.<br /><br />I've seen this from Greggy Nyquist a few times now. This vindictive schadenfreude over the Atlas Shrugged movie not doing well at the box office.<br /><br />Then you have Daniel Barnes making a nice ignorant sweeping generalization that sadly yes, that is normal for an Objectivist. Not sure what that guy was doing wrong, but I guess it need not be said. LOL!<br /><br />Once again, proof positive that Neil Parille, Daniel Barnes, and Greg Nyquist are royal (A)-holes.QuantumHaecceityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10939627623915545949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-22964316380816206342013-10-01T11:39:51.931-07:002013-10-01T11:39:51.931-07:00but the producers of "Atlas Shrugged" Pa...<i>but the producers of "Atlas Shrugged" Parts I and II are now on Kickstarter (!), asking for money that they allegedly don't need (but probably do.)</i><br /><br />It suggests to me that they've already lost a good sum of money on the first two parts and aren't eager to lose money on the last part. Will kickstarter work? Are there enough people out their willing to throw away money so a third part of Atlas, with yet another whole new cast, can be made? This thing was made under the auspices of the Atlas Society, David Kelley's group. They represent the more reasonable, non-cultish side of Objectivism. But these movies demonstrate that neo-Objectivists can be as afflicted with poor judgment as the worst among the orthodox crowd. gregnyquisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13653516868316854941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-45999098748948261462013-09-30T20:31:39.859-07:002013-09-30T20:31:39.859-07:00I don't know if Mr. Nyquist has heard, but the...I don't know if Mr. Nyquist has heard, but the producers of "Atlas Shrugged" Parts I and II are now on Kickstarter (!), asking for money that they allegedly don't need (but probably do.)<br /><br />http://www.avclub.com/articles/atlas-shrugged-producers-turn-to-kickstarter-for-h,103253/<br /><br />Sunk-cost fallacy much?Strelnikovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12660962615198939441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-28684603881842075432013-09-26T18:32:21.296-07:002013-09-26T18:32:21.296-07:00Sadly, yes.Sadly, yes.Daniel Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06359277853862225286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-59691784267689297472013-09-26T11:42:21.469-07:002013-09-26T11:42:21.469-07:00http://www.infowars.com/abortion-nation-america-on...http://www.infowars.com/abortion-nation-america-only-1-of-4-countries-to-allow-abortions-post-viability/#comment-1059709343<br /><br />I encountered this while googling for recent articles about the adoption of US-born children overseas, mainly in the Netherlands (even more in Canda, but that is hardly an overseas adoption. <br /><br />Is this normal for an "Objectivist"?Theodorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14634057445114838262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-31468454903823086802013-09-26T10:43:16.065-07:002013-09-26T10:43:16.065-07:00Thank you for explaining what those, so unobjectiv...Thank you for explaining what those, so unobjective, "Objectivists" are up to. <br />It's very helpful, if one runs into one of them.Theodorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14634057445114838262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-16903603403903335952013-09-19T13:55:31.414-07:002013-09-19T13:55:31.414-07:00>I hope that either you or Daniel Barnes will h...>I hope that either you or Daniel Barnes will have a few things to say about David Harriman's book "the Logical Leap".<br /><br />Hi Gordon,<br /><br />Here's some preliminary comments about the book, and some of the fractures in the movement it has already caused.<br /><br />http://aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.co.nz/2010/11/collision-course.html<br /><br />Neil Parille has also commented on it here:<br />http://aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.co.nz/2010/11/intellectual-sources-of-latest.html<br /><br />I began to analyse the book here:<br />http://aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.co.nz/2011/05/inside-cultist-mind-2.html<br /><br />http://aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.co.nz/2011/05/saving-appearances-notes-on-cultism-in.html<br /><br />http://aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.co.nz/2011/05/saving-appearances-2-notes-on-cultism.html<br /><br />http://aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.co.nz/2011/06/notes-on-cultism-in-logical-leap-3.html<br /><br />Before being driven to shrill unholy madness I then left the book in a hotel room, and only got around to getting a new copy a few weeks ago.<br /><br />I will resume the discussion once I get a moment.Daniel Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06359277853862225286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6520571573689383692013-09-19T11:48:40.361-07:002013-09-19T11:48:40.361-07:00Gordon,
You're right to assume that I'm ...Gordon, <br /><br />You're right to assume that I'm (thankfully!) coming to the end of the epistemology series. And while it would be appropriate to cap it off with a discussion of Harriman's "Logical Leap," since I haven't yet had the opportunity of reading Harriman's tract, that will have to wait for a later date. I do know, however, that Harriman attempts to "solve" the problem of induction by relating it to Rand's theory of concepts. Harriman's view of induction, as far as I can make it out, seems to rely heavily on Rand's conflation, at the very heart of her view of concepts, of meaning and theory. Harriman seems to be suggesting that if your concepts are formed properly (by which I assume he means your theories?), then you have a "green light" to proceed making inductive generalizations. Having not read Harriman's book, I'm not sure how all this is fleshed out. The devil's in the details!gregnyquisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13653516868316854941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-74063543373015358312013-09-18T17:34:23.827-07:002013-09-18T17:34:23.827-07:00Greg,
Thanks for this latest analysis. Inducing ...Greg,<br /><br />Thanks for this latest analysis. Inducing a state of philosophical hypochondria is one of Rand's favourite tactics and your last paragraph does a good job of dealing with one example of this tactic in action.<br /><br />I gather you are coming to the end of your articles on Rand's epistemology. I hope that either you or Daniel Barnes will have a few things to say about David Harriman's book "the Logical Leap".Gordon Burkowskinoreply@blogger.com