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Re: Objectivism

Elliot,

I agree that Objectivism is not fully coherent. I still don't really understand how Objectivists justify induction from their Law of Identity! Like you, I find much merit in Rand's writings, but I wonder how the flaws of Objectivism would expose themselves in an Objectivist society.

Even though many Objectivists seem to misunderstand Popper (for example, this), they are not shy in criticising him. Now I accept that some of the criticism of Popper is valid - he was fallible after all and his social engineering is highly questionable - but by denying Critical Rationalism, Objectivists deny our best theory of knowledge creation and this can only be bad for libertarianism.

by Brian S on Tue, 04/24/2007 - 11:47

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