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> Modern academic philosophy won't help because it's dominated by certain false ideas. Care to tell us what they are?

by Bromskloss 10y ago

pklausler 10y ago
Check out his URL's domain name, then make the usual assumptions.
- axlprose 10y ago
  > make the usual assumptions I have no idea what this is supposed to mean or imply in this context, but it seems to be a classic HN response asking people to judge a book by it's cover instead of its contents/arguments, which is even less helpful.
  - Natanael_L 10y ago
    Objectivism is basically built on a bunch of strange axioms, and to a large part completely denies that they're arbitrarily chosen axioms instead of hard facts. They treat logic built on other axioms as inherently wrong.
  - pavel_lishin 10y ago
    The nice thing about a book cover is that it tells you which book is inside, saving you the trouble of having to read it every time.
  - meowface 10y ago
    It's sometimes reasonable to judge books by their covers.
- Bromskloss 10y ago
  I'm offering the opportunity to try to convert me to objectivism. :-)
  - GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
    There's enough randian evangelism on this forum without inviting more.
    - Bromskloss 10y ago
      Interesting. I suppose I haven't been here enough to see it.
  - IsaacL 10y ago
    It's hard to summarise. Read "Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology" which contains the fundamentals of a theory of knowledge, specifically a theory of the nature of concepts. That's the part which is relevant for this discussion and is also the foundation for everything else. Ultimately you have to read Rand rather than read about her, as so many of her critics enjoy a somewhat loose relationship with reality. For example, the comment in this thread about "randian evangelism" on HN. I've encountered two other Objectivists on HN, whereas every week we have multiple hundred-comment threads on how fantastic an idea universal basic income is. That's pretty ineffective evangelism.

> Modern academic philosophy won't help because it's dominated by certain false ideas. Care to tell us what they are?

pklausler 10y ago

Check out his URL's domain name, then make the usual assumptions.

axlprose 10y ago
> make the usual assumptions I have no idea what this is supposed to mean or imply in this context, but it seems to be a classic HN response asking people to judge a book by it's cover instead of its contents/arguments, which is even less helpful.
- Natanael_L 10y ago
  Objectivism is basically built on a bunch of strange axioms, and to a large part completely denies that they're arbitrarily chosen axioms instead of hard facts. They treat logic built on other axioms as inherently wrong.
- pavel_lishin 10y ago
  The nice thing about a book cover is that it tells you which book is inside, saving you the trouble of having to read it every time.
- meowface 10y ago
  It's sometimes reasonable to judge books by their covers.
Bromskloss 10y ago
I'm offering the opportunity to try to convert me to objectivism. :-)
- GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
  There's enough randian evangelism on this forum without inviting more.
  - Bromskloss 10y ago
    Interesting. I suppose I haven't been here enough to see it.
- IsaacL 10y ago
  It's hard to summarise. Read "Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology" which contains the fundamentals of a theory of knowledge, specifically a theory of the nature of concepts. That's the part which is relevant for this discussion and is also the foundation for everything else. Ultimately you have to read Rand rather than read about her, as so many of her critics enjoy a somewhat loose relationship with reality. For example, the comment in this thread about "randian evangelism" on HN. I've encountered two other Objectivists on HN, whereas every week we have multiple hundred-comment threads on how fantastic an idea universal basic income is. That's pretty ineffective evangelism.