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To: bart13 who wrote (95902)	10/26/2012 9:06:09 PM
From: average joe	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218740

This bears on Rand's hostility to a priori knowledge, which makes her claim that even knowledge of logic is learned. The vicious circularity of her view means that knowledge of logic--in the sense of 'knowing how', though perhaps not in the sense of 'knowing that'--must be innate. (I.e., we innately know how to think logically, though we may not have explicit knowledge of the laws of thought.) It is incoherent to say that you figure out logically how to figure things out logically. Is this some kind of joke? Who wrote that balderdash?

To: bart13 who wrote (95902)	10/27/2012 7:02:29 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218740

Her formative years have influence in her way of thinking. When you suffer such blows at the age of 12-13 years this impacts on the way you see the world. The subsequent October Revolution and the rule of the Bolsheviks under Vladimir Lenin disrupted the comfortable life the family had previously enjoyed. Her father’s pharmacy business was confiscated and the family displaced. en.wikipedia.org Then she suffered cultural shock: Arrival in America In the fall of 1925, Rand was granted a visa to visit American relatives. Rand was so impressed with the skyline of Manhattan upon her arrival in New York Harbor that she cried what she later called "tears of splendor". [22] This second factor have a huge impact on her way of seeing the world.