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    If I think I explained it, and you think you do not understand it, was it my ability to explain it or was it your ability to understand it that I don't understand. Could you please explain?

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    Here's another list - although this thread is older. Wikipedia:Dystopian Funny, had not really considered Atlas Shrugged a dystopian novel before.
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    Try Chapter 14 starting late on 634 thru 637? (Electronic edition, referencing one of the paperback versions.)
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    That has been identified as a 'suckling reflex' - an automatic reflex similar to that of yanking one's hand back from touching something hot.
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    A false straw-man dichotomy complete with pictures of an advertisement using the 'Pinocchio noses' as a subtle subliminal warning to those who might notice. Nice synopsis, Dante.
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    Aside from reality being all that there is to deal with, it must be sad not to have a future. Unless you are going to refute Zeno's paradox by arguing that time is not infinitely divisible (presumably in the future, since by the time you view this it will be in the past) or some other aspect to which infinity is yanked from its mathematical moorings, it is just good to know that you acknowledge that you are are not inherently asserting something that is reflected in reality.
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    The identity of what we see is not at stake, though the identification we have given it may be.

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    For someone who denies the 'future', you utilize it rather accurately from a present tense perspective, just prior to your re-denial of it. As to a distinction between existence and the universe (note the singular usage of 'the universe', prior to a possessive plural? invocation) you have not elaborated. Your command and grasp of the language is making your point difficult to comprehend.
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    Both adequate lifespan and the idea of enough time, both acknowledge a future, unless being refered to in past tense. Reality cannot be faked.
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    Does not an 'adequate lifespan' encapsulate a 'future'?
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    Thanks. Just receive the OTI lecture Thursday. I had acquired the Logical Leap shortly after its release. This is going to be an interesting challenge. Had not considered that Objectivism could be approached as a 'rationalist' before. This is going to be an interesting challenge.
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    Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.— Thomas Sowell And from the quotation database, this too, comes to mind.
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    Causality. The world is just full of it.

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    Islam closed the door to Greek philosophy and much of the sciences. The foreign sciences are viewed as being an endangerment of their faith. The west's main encouragement is brought about by example. How we live and think is a existential concretization and refutation of what they say they believe. Rational approaches only work when dealing with a rational people. A people who deny reason, cannot be conquered by it. When a people abandon reason, they open the door to physical force as the only alternative and the inevitable consequence.
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    The next time you hear a discussion of "Medicare," give some thought to the future—particularly to the future of your children, who will live at a time when the best brains available will no longer choose to go into medicine.

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    Is the purpose of displaying some form of Objectivist 'flair' to spark some discussion or to put the philosophy of Objectivism 'more out there', how does this differ from proselytization of Objectivism, even though it is not a door-to-door type canvassing? Or is the use of 'flair' just to identify with others who are familiar with Objectivism in general?
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    If you care how you will be buried after death, then spell it out specifically. If you care what your 'catholic' friends think about you not embracing 'catholicism', then it seems the issue is one of social-metaphyisics. "Social metaphysics" refers to the neurosis resulting from automatized second-handedness, i.e., the type of psycho-epistemology that is focused primarily on the views of others, not on reality.
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    To know the exact meanings of the concepts one is using, one must know their correct definitions, one must be able to retrace the specific (logical, not chronological) steps by which they were formed, and one must be able to demonstrate their connection to their base in perceptual reality. - Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology

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    Abstraction near measurement yeilds the following from the Objectivism CD-ROM:
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    A manifold surface such a torus, is similar in the sense you describe as a cup. That being said, if you consider the orifices in the nostrils to the mouth, or if you want to take a trip thru the entrails, the sphere will not 'reshape' into a human being. This is not your question though. Off the cuff, you may be discussing manifold topology
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    Jupiter, by far, has to be my favorite planet to put in the objective lens!

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    Cold turkey worked before. Relapsed after a couple of years. Getting ready to stop again. A long time avid coffee drinker, although tea is ok, your explaination may serve of interest and benifit. Thanks in advance.
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    Gotthelf appears to separate the theory of concept and essence in the Abstract. Is he looking to separate concept and essence, or theory of concept and theory of essence? He starts by making the distinction between the "object of thought" and the "grasp of the object of thought" for the term "concept" and spends about two-thirds of the article providing a brief overview of concept-formation as promised. It is in the third section that he gets into definitions and essences. In the fourth section it is the essences that provide the most efficacious definitional fodder, refining the 'grasp of the object of thought' to better serve the fundamental human need of unit-economy. While properly formed concepts can be validated, it is properly forming the concepts that Gotthelf addressed.
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    Is the comma mislocated here? That said for a first level concept (i.e. being ostensive), the more sophisticated definitions can be found (are established) by induction? Cat, dog, horse are ostensively defined. Animal is inductively grasped.
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    Jupiter looks even larger. With a little practice, you can even make out that stripe.

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