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Is Ayn Rand's empirism the same as logical positivism/utilitarianism? If so, why did she not deviate from pure lassiez faire and support some state intervention in her economics? cause I notice a lot of positivist economists are always tempted to support state intervention as long as it satisfies...
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So I'm trying to understand the Objectivist POV on sense perception, but I'm having some trouble here. I was reading Leonard Peikoff's book about Objectivism, and in it, he stated that our sense perceptions are correct as an axiom. How can this be? If humans can have dreams and hallucinations...
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Open letter to Thomas M Schmidt: Your interesting article/course lecture published at http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/schmidt6.html titled “Programming the 21 st Century” reminded me of a philosophy course lecture I attended in 1960 at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. With no prior indication...