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So I'm trying to understand the Objectivist POV on sense perception, but I'm having some trouble here. I was reading Leonard Peikoff's book about Objectivism, and in it, he stated that our sense perceptions are correct as an axiom. How can this be? If humans can have dreams and hallucinations...
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Is abstraction necessarily purposeful behavior? Alfred Korzybski (General Semantics) takes the view that the process by which any organism's nervous system produces a sense perception of the "outside world" is abstraction. The abstraction is a neurological consequence of the limiting physiological...
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I would like to announce that I have just completed work on my most recent book: Striving and Attainment - A Theory of Social Interaction. I have posted it in Word document form on my web sites adamknott.com and praxeology.com In the book, I present the theory of ethics which I have been developing as...
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Max Black, in an essay criticizing general semantics, credits Aristotle with "pioneering modern discoveries in multivalued logics" (Ref. Max Black, Language and Philosophy , Cornell University Press 1949, p228-229). Can anyone direct me to passages in Aristotle's writings that substantiate...
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Greetings. I have now made available a free audiobook version of Hans-Hermann Hoppe's Economic Science and the Austrian Method , which you can find at http://progressofliberty.today.com/hoppe-austrian-method/ I hope that you enjoy listening to it. I will be periodically adding new recordings of Austrian...
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Open letter to Thomas M Schmidt: Your interesting article/course lecture published at http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/schmidt6.html titled “Programming the 21 st Century” reminded me of a philosophy course lecture I attended in 1960 at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. With no prior indication...
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O.K. What qauntitative value reasons are there for the study of history with the proper theory? I'm going to step into Epistemological Problems of Economics this weekend. Good day.
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I know extremely little about philosophy; only the bits that come up is Mises' work (I haven't read much of any other Austrian yet as I'm new to the school). However, I do think it is interesting, so can anybody recommend a good book that would introduce me to the basic branches (epistemology...
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Possibly they like mathematics, since this is easier to teach and test . [quote user="Inquisitor"]Regarding philosophy, I will be sticking mostly to matters of epistemology, Enlightenment and some classical contintental philosophy, ethics and the like. One of the courses will have a component...
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[quote user="Trianglechoke7"] Jeff, thanks for the answer. Could you give me a specific answer as to whether or not a parent should be allowed to give their child meth, at say 9 years of age? Let's assume that the child has learned about drugs in school, and has asked the parent for it...