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To: Aquinasfan
If you've read Rand, you probably know that she claims to admire Aristotle. But she either rejected Aristotle's epistemology or ignored it.

Statements like this need to be proven before they can be taken seriously, not just asserted.

Actually, Rand took Aristotle's basis for epistemology and created something that far surpassed it, that answered the questions that he had raised yet was, at that time, unable to answer. She didn't reject it, she surpassed and outdated it.

235 posted on 02/07/2003 1:10:14 PM PST by LogicWings
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To: LogicWings
She didn't reject it (Aristotle's epistemology), she surpassed and outdated it.

Ayn Rand's esthetics, presented in the "Romantic Manifesto," similarly updates and -- far -- surpasses Aristotle's monumental Poetics.

238 posted on 02/07/2003 1:40:37 PM PST by thinktwice
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To: LogicWings
She [Rand] didn't reject it, she surpassed and outdated it.

LOL! I missed this before.

400 posted on 02/12/2003 4:53:54 AM PST by Aquinasfan
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