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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (95965)	10/28/2012 1:25:18 AM
From: Robin Plunder	Respond to of 218841

Good point by Mr. Diogenes.....:) How do we make a definition? ...by identifying the 'essential' characteristics of the thing we are defining..the essential characteristics being those which can explain or account for the bulk of the characteristics of the entity...an implication of this is that we can only define things that we can actually observe... rp " The elements of reason are objectively identifiable; abstractions such as ‘percept’, ‘concept’, and ‘logic’ are reducible to the data of observation. But abstractions such as ‘intuition’, ‘revelation’, and the rest, precisely because they purport to name a faculty that transcends reason, cannot be given objective definition; there is no logical chain linking such abstractions to sensory data. As a result, there is no objective means by which to use or apply such terms. Technically, they are invalid concepts. Practically, a person who uses them has no recourse but to rely on his feelings.” (Objectivism, the Philosophy of Ayn Rand, L. Peikoff, p160.)