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- Anonymous: Ayn Rand's Amazing...
...Achievements, Pt 137 - I think the saddest thing about the site, SOLO, is that Lindsey is surrounded by people that think the sun shines out of his proverbial; the same is true for James Valliant. Anyone that disagrees with them and refuses to draw the line is, in their eyes 'sub-human'. This does make for a very interesting or effective debate. NB. This week at SOLO is Obama a fascist, a socialist or both? They really do compare Obama to Hitler there. Perhaps Lindsey and Valliant and co can give a timeline for this desc... posted Feb 09, 12:27am
- Xtra Laj: Ayn Rand's Amazing...
...Achievements, Pt 137 - One of the best sections of Scott Ryan's "Objectivism and the Corruption of Rationality" was his discussion of how Objectivism doesn't understand the debate behind "The Evidence of the Senses". In fact, many people who use their common sense to approach the issue often fall into the same trap as Objectivists. The problem is not with the Evidence of the Senses, but with the instant judgment that we make based upon the Evidence of the Senses. That instant judgment is generally reliable but is quite f... posted Feb 08, 04:39pm
- Dragonfly: Ayn Rand's Amazing...
...Achievements, Pt 137 - MP: [Perigo:] "She exposed the lethal incoherence of requiring that we must know everything in order to know anything (see modern physics)." That's funny, it's exactly the other way around: the argument I always hear from Objectivists is that if you say that our senses are imperfect and that we cannot know everything, would imply that we cannot know anything , which seems to be one of her main arguments against Kant: his ideas would make knowledge impossible (which of course leads immediately to t... posted Feb 08, 04:08pm
- Daniel Barnes: Ayn Rand's Amazing...
...Achievements, Pt 137 - Mike P: >Truly a pitiful performance. I think La Perigo's comment about "modern physics" is particularly revealing of the Objectivist mindset. When it comes to modern physics, he knows a lot about Mario Lanza. Yet somehow Rand has persuaded him that he is supremely qualified to pronounce judgement on something he knows literally nothing about. It could be that Perigo is simply a bit of an airhead - I've met him, and he is nice enough in person if not exactly a towering intellect - but of course... posted Feb 08, 01:40pm
- Anonymous: Ayn Rand: Engineer of...
...Souls - http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2010/02/05/one-or-two-thoughts-about-ayn-rand/ Here is Kimball reviewing the comments made in response to Daniels. posted Feb 08, 01:03pm
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