dream_weaver

While it is not a proposition explicitly being held as a single unit in the mind, the converse is certainly touched upon. Also, she discusses that there are words that are developed to specifically aide us within the context of grammar.

Interesting reading. Great writer with a distinctively rational approach. "The Virtue of Selfishness", by Ayn Rand. Chapter 3, "The Ethics of Emergencies"

Alyssa claims her parents are both engineers, following a link listed on her facebook page. Her online resume provides plenty of material to find out that she was born August 22, 1988. Her parents may well have divorced in 1992. There are ongoing requests for child support modifications per the referenced document filed November 19, 2004 (duplicated link).

A link to Aristotle's Metaphysics (Book VII) compliments of The Internet Classics Archive.

Barclay's was responsible for establishing the ETF of SLV.

In an article by Gary North, he posts a rather interesting question. What changed in 1800 that altered an economic flat line into a 2% per annum compounded growth curve? After reading this article, I was listening to Dr. Peikoff's 2nd day on Objectivism Through Induction when he pondered out loud that Miss Rand may not have reached her theory of concepts if the industrial revolution had not transpired. Around that comment, he pointed out that the crucial link between mathematics and physics was discovered. Prior to that connection, mathematics was an interesting pastime, more of a novel pursuit. Its most practical application to daily life was probably in accounting up until individuals like Kepler, Galileo and Newton connected and expressed natures physical laws via mathematical equations in the late 1600 - early 1700. Could this be a/the catalyst? Introduced nearly a century before the events in question by Gary North as the seed of the industrial revolution?

Just an interesting aside. From a 1896 copyright by the Macmillin Company, in a book entitled: The Number Concept: It's Origin and Development, written by Levi Leonard Conant, attributed by the author to a paper written by Sir John Lubbock, may be a contender for the origin of the crow story. This is a public domain book available on Project Gutenberg for anyone interested.

Yes. Thanks, Vic. My assessment is missing that step. Hermes is correct. I was focused on differentiations within the family of metals.

I just picked up the wi-fi only version of the 3rd generation. It is definately nicer than trying to read off the screen of a palm pilot. While it handles pdf files, Newton's tome has a pronounced delay in loading to the screen. Rotating the screen allows the print to be read without having to try scrolling around on the page to see it. Just need to figure out how to sync websites for viewing now (if it can even be done).

That writing began as inventory lists is very plausible. I believe that Rand's observation 'unit' is at the base of both abstraction and mathematics is still in its infancy. Understanding that 'bird', 'dog', 'cat' are considered first-level concepts, and observing my grandson playing with some magnetic toys recently would lead me to realize that "metal" is a first-level concept as well. The steel to which the magnet stuck had already been conceptualized already as "metal". The gold ring I wear and aluminum frames on some furniture were also conceptualized already as "metal" as well. Pat Corvini in The Crisis of Principles in Greek Mathematics questions if Euclid's Elements are fully validated in this lecture (note: not challenging that the Elements principles outlined work.) How Writing Came About looks like an interesting history.

Simple. You put the education of the citizens into the hands of the govenment to ensure this never transpires. (tongue in cheek)

Ask yourself what evidence is to begin with. I have evidence of a computer in front of me. I have evidence of hardwood floors beneath my feet. I can perceive it. Others can perceive it. What the heck does evidence for "something that isn't" (pot-o-gold @ the end of a rainbow, tooth-fairy, etc) look like? This is a misuse of the concept 'evidence' which grants the illusion of logically supported in the absence of a validation of the concept 'evidence'.

Actually, man is rational by nature. Whether or not he exercises that capacity is a matter of choice. That man is rational by nature only identifies that he has a rational facutly.

Don't forget: Amendment 9 - Construction of Constitution. Ratified 12/15/1791. The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. Just because certain rights are mentioned, a proper identification of other rights should be admissible by this seldom used clause. Properly invoked, it should embrace any and all rights from the trespass of others.

To: Wesley Mouch, District Ombudsman From: Dream Weaver Re: Response to m082844 I recently became ware of your response to a fellow poster regarding his concerns on liberty and its current status here in the recently formulated united states hereto after referred to as America. Necessary to the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is economic freedom. Standing in the way of economic freedom is the Federal Reserve a monopoly granted to a single entity to side skirt the provisions outlined in the Constitution which states in Article 1 - The Legislative Branch, Section 10 - Powers Prohibited of States: No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility. In a recent publication, February 2011 of the Imprimis, Seth Lipsky, Founding Editor of the New York Sun gave a talk about The Floating Dollar as a Threat to Property Rights. The states of Montana, Missouri, Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Georgia and Washington, Utah, are seeking to reinstate gold and silver coins as money, and most recently Virginia and North Carolina are implementing committees to research the feasibility of such measures. Ironically, North Carolina is taking this under consideration after Bernard von NotHaus, a 67 year old man, one of their own private citizen's tried in his own unique way to educate other citizens about him of the threats to liberty and how to better protect it, had his own liberty infringed upon by the agency charged with the securing and ensuring of his rights. This has been followed with some interest here and here. As an influential District Ombudsman, and your connection to Dear Congressman, who as you paint as having the seniority and the track record of a Congressman who can get things done, please expedite the abolishment of the Federal Reserve and repeal of any legislation which aided and abetted its inception and continuance. Thank you for being so responsive to your communities needs. This and any future correspondence will be filed for future reference and consideration under Project X. Respectfully, Dream Weaver

On the magazine rack at the grocery store, the March 2011 edition of National Geographic featured a cover with a picture of a fox and the caption "Designing the Perfect Pet". The article appears on their website currently as Animal Domestication. A thumbnail would paint several selective generations in two control groups. Control group A, a selection of the most approachable foxes. Control group B, a selection of the least approachable foxes. The resulting litters from each of the control groups were subject to a repeat of the selection process yeilding A' from A and B' from B. Within four generations group A foxes are wagging tails and leap into the researchers arm and lick their faces. Group B, by contrast, would hiss, bare teeth, and snap at the front of their cages upon human approach. The article does touch on the genetic research involved in trying to identify different genes that may be useful in better understanding their observations.

We also acquire contradictions.

Here is one thought process I’m struggling with. It appears that the only contradictions that can exist are abstractly in our mind based on assumptions observations we make and logical conclusion we volitionally draw from those assumptions observations. Would we be just as rigid as reality if there were no contradictions even within our own minds? How did contradictions arrive in our minds when they are nowhere to be found in nature? Truth would be the volitional adherance to reality via the application of logic.

They see someone? They actually see someone? Can they objectively demonstrate that they actaully see someone?

Peikoff wrote a supplimental section included in the second edition of ITOE on the analytic/synthetic dichotomy. Understanding this dichotomy can be benificial when confronted with it. The analytic statement is "true" because it is definitional, not because of the objectively relationship to the identified referents in reality. This gives rise to the synthetic side of the coin. A bachelor cannot be a married man, for this would be definitionally false. To posit that a bachelor could fly by flapping his arms might be considered synthetically "true" since the definition does not omit this specifically. Unfortunately many examples can be much more subtle and increase the difficulty in identifying it. Ayn Rand considered linguistic analysis a form of this in ITOE where she stated, "The cognitive function of concepts was undercut by a series of grotesque devices—such, for instance, as the "analytic-synthetic" dichotomy which, by a route of tortuous circumlocutions and equivocations, leads to the dogma that a "necessarily" true proposition cannot be factual, and a factual proposition cannot be "necessarily" true."