... <tronfuru@frizurf.no> wrote: ....>>The question is, if perception is a constructivist...your question is, what bearing does it have on epistemology? Ayn Rand published...in that book. QED. Because your question really amounts to asking, "How do... along the line your rhetorical question. How does this model becomes ... he makes them explicit unlike Rand. Well, the quote was more ...

...com/index.pl?node_id=1716111). The question is, if perception is a constructivist...premise or perhaps "axiom." Then your question is, what bearing does it have on epistemology? Ayn Rand published... no closer to answering that question as there is not one ... in that book. Because your question really amounts to asking, "How ... he makes them explicit unlike Rand. Dawkins would address the brain ...

...you still cant and or dont want to explain the objects and or events which "awaken your experience"s You will have to make sense first, but with Ayn Rand at the helm I doubt if you can muster up any. -- We usually go over the top w/ our new found freedoms. Unfortunately, her 'followers'...

...@xtra.co.nz> wrote: On Feb 22, 12:13 am, Malrassic Park <malen...@hotmail.com> wrote: Haven't you read the words of your goddess Ayn Rand? Ewe're the one struggling with what Kant said. Nope. -- We usually go over the top w/ our new found freedoms. Unfortunately, her 'followers' are as...

On Feb 22, 12:13 am, Malrassic Park <malen...@hotmail.com> wrote: Haven't you read the words of your goddess Ayn Rand? Ewe're the one struggling with what Kant said. Kant: [sic].. "That, there is no doubt all of man's knowledge begins by objects awakening his experiences" However, below is a ...

...: Read the fucking manual, then get back to me. Your Reason Destruction Manual (RDM) Haven't you read the words of your goddess Ayn Rand? Acronyms are not to be multiplied beyond necessity, the corollary of which is, nor should acronyms be integrated in disregard of necessity. (ITOE, 72) -- ...

..." It is this kind of "constructivism" I had in mind, a model which also has venerable roots, like the Helmholtz-Gregory constructivist theory of perception (http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1716111). The question is, if perception is a constructivist activity (in this sense), does it have a bearing on epistemology? And if so, what is it? T

...>> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:29:25 +0100, "Tron" <tronfuru@frizurf.no> wrote: If so, which? And what are the alternatives? Any which is viable? Empiricism is begging the question. Grounding the Cogito in thinking itself is circular. Objectivism grounding logic in the senses is just a variation on Descartes' petitio. Locke's philosophy is another example of this. Hume was ...

... On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:29:25 +0100, "Tron" <tronfuru@frizurf.no> wrote: If so, which? And what are the alternatives? Any which is viable? Empiricism is begging the question. Grounding the Cogito in thinking itself is circular. Objectivism grounding logic in the senses is just a variation on Descartes' petitio. Locke's philosophy is another example of this. Hume was right, ...

... could only be defended by reference to some standard or other. If the standard under dispute is invoked, then the question has been begged. If another standard is appealed to, the question arises again, to be answered either by circular reasoning or by appeal to yet another standard. So either the process ...