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- From: cs122057@sol.yorku.ca
- Newsgroups: alt.philosophy.objectivism
- Subject: Re: Logical philosophy
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.014800.1@sol.yorku.ca>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 06:48:00 GMT
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- In article <C1Gto8.9JC@world.std.com>, rjk@world.std.com (robert j kolker) writes:
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- > Suppose you encountered a phenomena that was totally alien to anything you
- > had ever experienced, and suppose further more, that said phenomena
- > ocurred only once (to you). How could you get a genre (genus) in which to
- > fit this strange thing. If I understand Rand's epistomology every existant
- > can be placed in a genus determined by its central characteristic, and
- > then further differentiated from the genus and placed in a species
- > (differentia). This would be the case if you had enough instances to
- > compare and to contrast. But what do you do with once onlies? (sui generus).
- >
- Rand does not say EVERY existant can be placed in a genus. Ayn Rand defines a
- concept as: "a mental integration of two or more units possessing the same
- distinguishing charateristic(s), with their particular measurements omitted."
- (ITOE). If there was only one phenomena or existant, it could not be
- integrated to form a concept. You could try to relate this phenomena to
- another concept that is similar(e.g. it was like a ...) or you could just give
- it a (proper) name to identify the phenomena.
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- Randy Levy "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent"
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