I see where you are coming from. Rand tried to take the same path as Descartes in formulating that axiom. In objectivism it is "Existence exists" and in Desca

I see where you are coming from. Rand tried to take the same path as Descartes in formulating that axiom. In objectivism it is "Existence exists" and in Descartes dialog it was "I think; I am." /not an objectivist