http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empiricism

Like Eugene O'Neill before me, I like to refer to them as "foolosophers." You bet your sweet bippie.

Objectivism holds that reality exists indepedent of our minds; that individual persons are in contact with this reality through se... [show more]

Objectivism holds that reality exists indepedent of our minds; that individual persons are in contact with this reality through sensory perception; that humans gain objective knowledge from perception by ‘measurement‘, and form valid concepts by measurement ‘omission‘. Objectivism states that by ‘reasoning’ man can gain knowledge (identify the facts of reality). Objectivism rejects philosophical ‘skepticism‘ as well as rejecting 'faith' and 'feeling' as means of attaining knowledge. Objectivism distinguishes valid concepts from poorly formed concepts, which Rand calls "anti-concepts." While we can know that something exists by perception, we can only identify what exists by measurement and logic, which are necessary to turn ‘percepts’ into valid ‘concepts‘. Procedural logic (defined by Rand as "the art of non-contradictory identification") specifies that a valid concept is formed by omitting the variable measurements of the values of corresponding attributes of a set of instances or units, but keeping the list of shared attributes - a template with measurements omitted - as the criterion of membership in the conceptual class. Because a concept is only known to be valid within the range of the measurements by which it was validated, it is an error to assume that a concept is valid outside this range, which is its (contextual) scope.


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_positivism

http://en.wikipedia....al_skepticism

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_rationalism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalism