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Originally posted by GreatWyrm of Babylon@Sep 2 2003, 09:06 PM
So basiclly you simply say that nothing is provable, so whomever has the most chrisma is right? A fancy way to say you reject the evidence delivered by your own senses. |
Actually, that's not what I said -- but the reference to charisma (at least, I assume you meant charisma) is interesting, given the nature of the rationalist 'movement'.
Now, what I have said very clearly is that objectivism (of which Ayn Rand's writing is a subset) is founded on a self-refuting premise -- and that makes it demonstrably false. Now, I'm sure that you already knew that, from reading virtually any basic introduction to modern philosophy. I have not seen you actually refute that point in any way -- other than to question where I am coming from. Given that it was a logically derived point, even in a rationalist world-view, the idea can be analysed and critiqued. If you want to do that, I would like to see the analysis and critique.
So lets change direction. You have referred to metaphysics a bunhc of times. Can you please tell me what metaphysics is.