This seems needlessly divisive and the author's apparent obsession with unhinging Rand makes their point much less clear. It also shows a very shallow and unin

This seems needlessly divisive and the author's apparent obsession with unhinging Rand makes their point much less clear. It also shows a very shallow and uninformed understanding of Rand's epistemology. She explored the concept of 'definition' in her epistemology: > It is important to remember that a definition implies all the characteristics of the units, since it identifies their essential, not their exhaustive, characteristics; since it designates existents, not their isolated aspects; and since it is a condensation of, not a substitute for, a wider knowledge of the existents involved. The above demonstrates that Rand was in favor of boiling a concept down to its fundamentals. She was against understanding a concept from the perspective of a non-essential trait, such as the kind of trait one with a big stick up their butt would apply to UI design, as the 'Ayn' character in the submitted webpage does.