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- From: sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill)
- Subject: Re: Logic (WAS Re: War!)
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:54:00 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.224002.19154@samba.oit.unc.edu>, Charlie.Creegan@launchpad.unc.edu (Charlie Creegan) writes:
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- |> Similarly all elements of St. Ayn's fiction are at one remove; e.g. you
- |> wouldn't think of appealing to John Galt as an authority (would you?)
- |> Any authority in those speeches is just your interpretation of what you
- |> think the author meant by including them. Maybe the whole corpus is a
- |> really truly intentional joke on all Objectivists!
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- Since one of Rand's favorite techniques is to quote Galt in support
- of her views and as an illustration of the choices, values, and
- views one has available in life, I certainly hope you are not
- suggesting that there is anything methodologically suspect about
- this technique simply because Galt is a creature of fiction. Since
- Rand does this, it seems only fair to allow her followers to do so
- as well.
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