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  1. What would you ask Dr. Tara Smith if you had the chance to exchange pleasantries with her over a cup of coffee?

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      StrictlyLogical

      When can we anticipate being able to buy your next book, and what will it be about?

  2. Dagny placed the remnant of the motor into a vault in one of the tunnels; the vault had once contained an emergency electric generator, which had been removed long ago.

    —a thing that made me go hmm. Was it really necessary to bring up the prior content of the vault?

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      StrictlyLogical

      Man’s mind or reason, his engine for life was also once used in ancient Greece and again during the Enlightenment, and in the face of bad philosophy is once more abandoned with nothing in its place... now another chance at restarting the generator of his life... a rebirth of reason.

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  3. The Pro•me•the•us Dis•connection

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      StrictlyLogical

      The pro me - the us disconnection ... I missed this on first reading.  There is no "I" in team but there's a "me" and an "us" in Prometheus.

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  4. The Pro•me•the•us Dis•connection

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      StrictlyLogical

      Prometheus brought fire down from the Gods as a gift to mere mortals, mortals who could never hope to live or be as the Gods.

      This is like some intriguing title of a book, did Prometheus disconnect, is there a disconnection with him, or did he bring Disconnection itself down to the mere mortals?

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  5. As a computer programmer, one of my favorite tasks was to take someone's code and clean it up, removing extranea, adding comments, improving the code's performance and functionality, and making it conform to relevant standards.  It was not uncommon for me to cut the size of the program, its resource use, and running time  in half, while swatting numerous known or potential bugs.

    Today, I have begun the equivalent on Rand's "The Objectivist Ethics".  My immediate task is to remove all the stuff that isn't really a part of the ethics itself, such as her numerous attacks on other ethical systems.  Very little of that is of importance to someone trying to understand the Objectivist ethics, however important it might be to motivate someone to make the effort.
     

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      StrictlyLogical

      Interesting idea.  Careful though, her attacks on other ethical systems also include important information for understanding what her ethics is not, and what approaches she holds as flawed and why etc.  In general if the particulars can be teased apart from the relevance they have to what she is illustrating then a more succinct summary could emerge.  So good luck!

  6. History: Testimony provided via an empirical record that supplies incontrovertible evidence substantiating the law of causality's veracity.

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      StrictlyLogical

      To emphasize the deficiency in multiple areas of personality: weeds each where rationality, valid premises, love of life, knowledge of reality, self-esteem, certainty, respect for others rights etc. all should be.  The weed of power-lust subverts warps or replaces (in its mental variant) what should otherwise be present in each "lot" of the mind, each aspect of an otherwise whole multifaceted mentality of a human being.

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