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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: Re: Objectivism
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Date: Mon, 27-May-85 16:11:01 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 27 16:11:01 1985
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["A is for Atlas." --Rand McNally]

> >         Those who have  acquiesced  to the point that they are no longer
> > believe that it is possible to know something with certainty have become
> > the  destroyers  of  science,  and  the  haters  of any  other  rational
> > endeavor.   It is my  opinion  that  SUPERFORCE  ignores  the  axiom  of
> > existence and proceeds to mutilate the concepts by which we interpret an
> > objective   reality.  By  mutilating   these  concepts,  the  author  is
> > mutilating man's mind.
> 
> HEAR, HEAR! I am one of those unfortunately few who believe in an objective
> reality. I particularly take exception to the notion that merely to observe
> something results in changing it. The very simplest example can easily prove
> this is a "truth": see that peri^od? How does it change when I turn my eyes
> in it's direction, and then look away? I don't think it changed in anyway
> whatsoever. It is still a area piece of phosphorescent material that was
> excited by electons until it glowed. Only as you read this, it is doing it
> on YOUR screen, not mine. It's still the same piece of data, though. Whether
> it persists or not is another thing.

Would you please move this one-sided "discussion" to net.philosophy, where
it belongs?  (Or does it indeed belong in net.books?  Objectivists are the
only "philosophers" I know of who model the world on A's and periods.)
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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