Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!rex!uflorida!novavax!twwells!bill From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: talk.philosophy.objectivism Message-ID: <1990Jan20.032041.16686@twwells.com> Date: 20 Jan 90 03:20:41 GMT References: <1990Jan13.140242.14111@twwells.com> <9001140024.AA18363@apee.ogi.edu> <9001142226.AA23247@apee.ogi.edu> <1990Jan17.075631.853@twwells.com> Organization: None, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Lines: 24 In article peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: : > "We never make assertions, Miss Taggart. That is the moral : > crime peculiar to our enemies. We do not tell -- we *show*. We : > do not claim -- we *prove*." -- Hugh Akston in _Atlas Shrugged_ : : If this be objectivism, It is a quote from a book by Ayn Rand. Akston is one of her heroes. : I must say that the majority of folks pushing for : the group are pretty poor objectivists. All they seem to come up with are : assertions. As it happens, I first started using this signature when I got totally disguested with certain Objectivists who simply assert their ideas rather than demonstrate them and who continue to assert them in the face of evidence that they are full of shit. Nowadays, while I still occasionally use it as a slap in the face, I generally intend it merely as a reminder. --- Bill { uunet | novavax | ankh } !twwells!bill bill@twwells.com