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Also, when you say compare and contrast this statement with Kelley's book, what are you suggesting? Is it your view that Rand's statement is at odds with what Kelley is saying? I just thought I would stir the pot a bit and see how people would react, Bill.
I do agree with Robert Malcom regarding any attempt to compromise with religion, for example, as morally flawed. I admit that I have, over time, found my view moving closer to that of Peikoff in "Fact and Value" regarding error versus evil. However, I do not find myself prepared to write a point by point comparison of Peikoff and Kelley's watershed works on the subject peppered with my own insights.
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When thinkers accept those who deny the existence of thinking, as fellow thinkers of a different school of thought - it is they who achieve the destruction of the mind. They grant the enemy's basic premise, thus granting the sanction of reason to formal dementia. A basic premise is an absolute that permits no co-operation with its antithesis and tolerates no tolerance.
