[thinktwice]

That is a part of the wool that "naturalist" or "objectivist" (God obviating) people have been pulling over some people's eyes for centuries now.

What you don't know about Objectivism fills volumes that you have not -- and probably will not -- read; volumes that philosophically outclass even Aristotle in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics and esthetics.

This thread, for instance, is about concepts -- a matter of epistemolgy; an absolutely eye (and mind) opening subject within the Ayn Rand book titled "Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology."

Believe it or not, I've presented you with a pearl.

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." Francis Bacon, "Of Studies"

[unspun]

Thanks for the tips, tt. The discipline of epistemology hardly began with Ayn Rand. She merely placed curtains around her chosen aspects of it, not too unlike Miss Havisham.

The fact that she concocted what may seem a theoretically working model to some, does not mean that her theories match up with reality. But perhaps you have already taken the blue pill on objectivism.