It is proven by the imitable truth that all A is A! On the one hand you seem to claim that you acknowledge that A is A and on the other hand claim that only an unproven "belief" stands in the way of one being stuck with A is not A. This is absurd. One cannot even claim such a thing as "evidence"...
Funny, I was just thinkin the same thing!
Well, for one thing it tells you that relationships must be non-contradictory.
If you are really looking for knowledge at least be rigorous and honest enough to not mis-represent me- I have never said nor would I ever agree that the axiom "cannot be...
All of this is fundamentally, absurd! Knowledge is not achieved through a whimsical "desire." "The admission (or rather the claim!) that some aspects of reality are non-rational" negates the claim that any aspects of reality are "rational."
Knowledge is only achieved by the recognition that...
there are an incalculable number of ways to formulate axioms and logical truths, but there is only one basic axiom, the law of identity. The law of non-contradiction simply states the law of identity in reverse. It state that there can be no non-identity. The law of identity is the most basic...
I don't think you understand the slightest thing about Ayn Rand's experience with mysticism. These statements are on the same level as the fundamentalist Christian who brushes aside Niche with the claim that "he died of syphilis."
Concepts are references to reality; they are not replacements for the things for which they refer. No reasonable person would expect the concept of red or blue to give a color blind person the experience of color perception. However, if this color-blind person is knowledgeable, he may have a...
My "guess" is that you do not!
This is precisely the assertion that the primacy of identity challenges and dispenses with.
What is the most fundamental part of existence? What can everything else be, in principle, reduced to? Does the question and indeed a simple provable answer bore you...
NO! there is no other possible ground of knowledge, but when a believer claims to just know, it is an attempt to claim otherwise.
NO! The claim that the statement "A is A" states nothing of "A" is false and shallow, but this is what one is stuck with when the Objectivist or anyone else fails to...
I hold Ayn Rand in the deepest respect so I am not offended when I am called an Objectivist. If, however, you think the article I posted here is in agreement with Objectivist epistemology, I would suggest posting it on the objetivismonline forum.
The statement that sums up where my...
Mysticism, within the context of my philosophy, is the embracing of contradiction (i.e., non-identity); a contradiction is the assertion of non-identity. In an epistemological context it refers to the notion that knowledge can be grounded on something other that the principle of self-sameness...
If a tree falls with no one around then there should be the presence of sound waves. Sound, nonetheless, is a product of the brain and a element of consciousness and would not be present if there is no one to hear. Perception is not the thing perceived. When dealing with the mystics claim of...