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- From: nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson)
- Subject: Re: The Enduring Rand (was: Re: Theory?)
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:50:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.102644.26783@genie.slhs.udel.edu> starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Tim Starr) writes:
- >In article <By0p1F.4Fy@apollo.hp.com> nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:
- >}>"Reason is the faculty that identifies and integrates the material
- >}>provided by man's senses." (Rand, VOS, "The Objectivist Ethics, p. 20).
- >}>Rand's full description of our rational faculty can be found in
- >}>_Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology_.
- >}
- >} In other words you are not prepared to define "reason".
- >
- >Jimbo just gave the definition. It's the sentence that begins with "Reason".
- >Which words aren't you capable of looking up in a dictionary?
- >
- >} Note that "a=a" would be optimized out of existence by any decent
- >} compiler because it's logically meaningless.
- >
- >I love it: the first law of logic logically meaningless!
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- "First law of logic"? I know about Newton's laws, Kepler's
- laws of motion, the laws of thermodynamics, etc. Who's "first
- law of logic" is this?
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- ---peter
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