In a message dated 8/16/09 5:35:12 PM, Chris Miller writes:

>  she's begun a theoretical discussion of
> "psycho-epistemology":
>
> "Psycho-epistemology is the study of man's cognitive process from the
> aspect
> of the interaction between the conscious mind and the automatic functions
> of
> the sub-conscious"  (page 20)
>
> Nobody uses this term except Rand and her followers, but that definition
> does
> seem to cover exactly  the same territory as William's favorite subject,
> cognitive science, although Rand makes no reference to the discoveries
> made
> by
> neuroscience.  (perhaps because this essay was written before that
> discipline
> became institutionalized in the late 1960's)
>
>    Do you meant that not only does she invent her own vocabulary but she is
also dated?
KAte Sullivan

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