then why did Ayn Rand change his law of non-contradiction to the law
of identity?

On Mar 4, 10:09 am, Malrassic Park hotmail.com> wrote:

It wasn't a change but rather a logical integration.

You cant call an apple and orange and you cant fit one where the other
is at the identical moment.

Ideas of reality must match / correspond with what happens in
reality.

But good to see you trying to think Melon

Perhaps you might like to now try and explain what objects and or
events did / does man experience to begin his knowledge of intuition
space time a priori sensibility spacial temporal transcendental,
especially given Kant's idea that objects awaken man's experiences to
begin all of his knowledge.

MG

On Mar 3, 5:09 pm, Malrassic Park hotmail.com> wrote:

She didn't, since aristotle already devised a law of identity; An
entity without an identity cannot exist because it would be nothing.
To exist is to exist as something, and that means to exist with a
particular identity.

http://importanceofphilosophy.com/Metaphysics_Identity.html
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-noncontradiction/

Speaking of Aristotle, he tried to "muzzle" the apish human tendency
to excess;

Aristotle's Golden Mean: doctrine that right action lies in the middle
position between the extremes of excess and deficit.

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 19:58:54 -0800 (PST), Michael Gordge
xtra.co.nz> wrote:

But Rand's law of identity simply says that a thing is itself. Why are
you being such a revisionist? Because Rand was a revisionist of
Aristotle.

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 22:49:55 -0800 (PST), Immortalist
yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi,

"Malrassic Park" hotmail.com> skrev i melding
news:r0pqs31tduu1su4uctfngghv5ufl5sshr7@4ax.com...

....> And no, Aristotle had no law of identity,

Bochenski attributes to Aristotle knowledge of the law of identity, although
A.does not discuss it, but only mentions it in passing (

On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:28:23 -0700, Malrassic Park
hotmail.com> wrote:

The ancient Greeks would never allow such a negative formulation as
"not eating." They would prefer something like "an excess of
starvation dieting."

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 17:37:34 +0100, "Tron" wrote:

I don't know. Where did you get a copy of this book? You've made me
research Aristotle's Metaphysics which I read long ago.

On Mar 5, 12:00 am, Malrassic Park hotmail.com> wrote:

And I can understand how ewe, a desperate Kantian, need a thing to be
many many things that its not, e.g. if all of man's knowledge begins
with objects awakening your experiences (as Kant wrote) then why not
the beginning of his knowledge of time space intuit sensibility
temporal beginning with objects and or events which require objects
anyway?

Michael Gordge

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:48:08 -0800 (PST), Michael Gordge
xtra.co.nz> wrote:

Take your meds, then we'll discuss.