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- From: triley@weber.ucsd.edu (Tristan Riley)
- Newsgroups: alt.postmodern
- Subject: Re: pms (was re: pm)
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 05:19:48 GMT
- Organization: University of California, San Diego
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- In article <C0Aq9u.Cs8@umassd.edu> pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU writes:
- >
- >SG Logical positivism?! Rand has been ignorantly or dishonestly accused of
- >many philosophical sins but, at least to my knowledge, never before of logical
- >positivism. For one thing, she denounces it as the claim "that man can be
- >certain of nothing but the sensory perceptions of the immediate moment" and as
- >the claim that "[science] is the creation of arbitrary constructs." The _Ency.
- >of Philosophy_ describes LP as the claim that "The propositions of
- >metaphysics...are neither true nor false..."
- > What is your understanding of Objectivism and LP such that you think
- >they are _basically_ similar? For the most part, opponents of Objectivism
- >dislike its concern with metaphysics (any metaphysics). Is your rejection of
- >Objectivism on a different basis? What could be a more basic difference than
- >the Objectivist acceptance of meta. and the LP rejection of meta?!
- > The only possibility i can guess at, and this is really a stretch, is
- >that some consider LP as giving positive answers because of its acceptance of
- >science.
- >
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- my misunderstanding--i gave rand the benefit of the doubt and
- imagined she was at least not running about fretting about the
- nature of things-in-themselves. perhaps (shudder) objectivism could
- be more ludicrous even than i'd previously imagined?
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- logical positivism's inability to deal with social construction and
- cultural relativity earns it the kick in the rear. rand likewise.
- philosophy is politics and reactionary philosophers etc.
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