::::::::: September 19,1996 Observation ::::::::::
"Observe the fact that in the writings of every school of mysticism and irrationalism, amidst all the ponderously unintelligible verbiage of obfuscations, rationalizations and equivocations (which include protestations of fidelity to reason, and claims to some "higher" form of rationality), one finds sooner or later, a clear, simple, explicit denial of the validity (of the metaphysical or ontological status) of axiomatic concepts, most frequently, 'identity'." -- Ayn Rand, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, 1973. |
