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To: dave rose who wrote (450)	4/17/1998 4:19:00 PM
From: Dragonfly	Read Replies (3) of 5853

If you read the statements you will agree that every statement made is true although it may be exaggeration. Unfortunately they become less and less of an exaggeration. They may feel true to you, but that is not using reason, that is using emotion. To use reason, you must find the logic and the facts that back up the conclusion. Ayn Rand does not, as far as I can tell, believe in reason. She believes in emotion, and convinces her followers that when they are following their feelings, they are using reason. I read the statements and they are nonsense. Conclusions, with no facts to support them. Since she does not bother to provide evidence, how can one take these things seriously. I'd be happy for someone to prove me wrong here, it should be quite easy, but nobody has (and I've raised the issue before in other venues). Simply provide an example of (or pointer to) an essay that uses logic and statements of fact to make a point in her philosophy. Every one I've analyzed using college level logic (and mine is not the strongest) fails. Dragonfly

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