[HiTech RedNeck]

Is it a fact, Nietsche, that there are no facts?

Such assertions undermine themselves.

He is trying to evade having to admit that there are good and bad interpretations of things.

[Publius]

Atlas ping.

Part 1, Chapter 6: The Non-Commercial

This article covers a lot of the territory that was covered at Hank Rearden's anniversary party, particularly by Balph Eubank, Claude Slagenhop, Bertram Scudder and especially Dr. Simon Pritchett.

[iontheball]

The author is correct but reversing the trend that is going in the wrong direction will easier said than done.

[Ohioan]

To really understand the values & institutions on which the Founding Fathers laid the foundation for an American future; one must understand the settler past. The real difference between the Founder's understanding of reality and that of the pursuers of ideology over reality, was that the Founders grounded their values on the actual experiences of the generations of settlers, who came before them.

See America--Grounded On Experience & Reason.

By contrast, all Leftist movements pursue "wish lists," aimed not at building on past experience, but rather seeking to substitute what they wish was true for what is

Of course, it never works out well.

[IronJack]

“We cannot establish any facts in themselves.”

Is that a fact?

[IronJack]

If the pomos can deny facts at will, why can’t we just deny the pomos?

Sorry, guys, but you don’t get to negate reality just because in your philosophy it doesn’t exist.

Why not?

Because your negation of reality is no more valid than my adherence to it.

[Billthedrill]

Oh, my, we have been here before, haven't we? The real difficulty is that "common sense" subsumes how people actually behave despite how they want to make you think that they think, which is ideology. An example - hold a 20-lb rock over your bare foot. Now, certainly one can imagine circumstances under which dropping the rock won't hurt. But common sense tells you it will. So go ahead, drop the rock.

Ah! Yes, I should think the visit to the emergency room might imply to the intelligent that there's a flaw in the theory that everything is subjective. The world is replete with lessons such as that. Are there, then, no facts? Well, no facts that one can deny, if one is capable of ignoring the cast on one's foot. No undeniable facts - but then that is a function of the denier, not the facts. In that sense, subjectivity reigns, but then it hurts like a bitch, doesn't it? And that's a fact.

Really, in a less pampered time this discussion wouldn't merit the time taken to type it. It is not "feelings" that are intended to trump fact, but fantasies. We all have them. Some of them are fatal.

[Elsie]

The Battle for America's Mind

Is this even SPOKEN of any more??

Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Philippians 2:5