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 She didn't reject it, she surpassed and outdated it.
Ayn Rand's esthetics, presented in the "Romantic Manifesto," similarly updates and -- far -- surpasses Aristotle's monumental Poetics.
LOL! I missed this before.