Ok Ron, You were someone else I was thinking about today, because I remember a post some short time back wherein you raised the point that SOM oughta really be termed Objectivism, in its aspect of being value-free. And that made sense to me.
So I was gonna ask you some questions, because after all the natural effect of looking up Objectivism and finding Ayn Rand's name plastered all over the doors of entry into the thing, then that makes Ayn Rand the mother of SOM, by your formulation, and thus I wonder how Platt and Ham get away with extolling her virtues when she's the MoQ equivalent of Jezabel, Delilah and Salome and Satan, all at once.... Hmmm???? What is going on? WTF? indeed. John the befuddled On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:41 AM, X Acto <[email protected]> wrote: Ron: > WTF > > OBJECTIVISM! > > Objectivism holds that reality exists independent of consciousness; that > individual persons are in contact with this reality through sensory > perception; that human beings can gain objective knowledge from perception > through the process of concept formation and inductive and deductive logic > > > > Objectivism (Latin ob- out of and iacio I am throwing, and Greek -ισμος or > -ismos the doing of a thing) is a school of philosophy that holds that > things in the natural world exist independently of anyone's perception of > them or efforts (or lack of effort) to understand them. Objectivism also > holds that nothing is provably real that one cannot demonstrate > independently of one person's percept of it. > > > > 1. Philosophy. One of several doctrines holding that all reality is > objective and external to the mind and that knowledge is reliably based on > observed objects and events. > 2. An emphasis on objects rather than feelings or thoughts in > literature or art. > > > > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
