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April 18th 11, 08:30 PM
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There you go again...
On 04/18/2011 04:58 AM, Barry wrote:
"In epistemology, she considered all knowledge to be based on sense perception, the validity of which she considered axiomatic,[86] and reason, which she described as "the faculty that identifies and integrates the material provided by man's senses."[87]" 86.^ Peikoff, Leonard (1991). Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand. New York: E. P. Dutton1991, pp. 38–39; Gotthelf, Allan (2000). On Ayn Rand. Wadsworth Philosophers Series. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing, p. 54 87.^ Rand 1964, Rand, Ayn). The Virtue of Selfishness. New York: Penguin.p. 22 I have to tell you that a European first year philosophy student would have problems with that. You do not have to be Derrida or Foucault to realise that one cannot be absolutely objective. The concepts of post-modernist discourse theory and social construct suggest that the empirical evidence of our senses is mediated through a social construct much influenced by a variety of mental baggage. The later Wittgenstein and his followers realised that the 'verification principle' at the heart of logical positivism was not universally applicable. We are, in fact, in the realm of probability theory here....everything has to be banced on a gamble, an assumption (though some assumptions have better odds than others). I do not think that Ayn Rand could accept that, for she wanted certainties where none existed. I could say more, but I'll leave it at that. Dr. Barry Worthington Thanks |
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