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Re: Objectivism is for cranks.

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Re: Objectivism is for cranks.

I erred in not mentioning Rand's reductio ad absurdum argument against a "sense-invalidity" argument:

1) Using my senses, things can appear different than they are.
2) Senses that don't pick-up things just as they are, aren't to ever be trusted.
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Therefore (using a method that can't be trusted), it follows that senses err.


[Senses, like axioms, have to used in any attempt to disprove them]
Added by Ed Thompson
on 8/06/2007, 2:19am

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