[WikiEN-l] Ayn Rand and Wikipedia

[Anirudh Bhati]

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From: Kurt Maxwell Weber <kmw at kurtweber.us>
Date: Thu, May 8, 2008 at 7:42 PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Ayn Rand and Wikipedia
To: Anirudh Bhati <anirudhsbh at gmail.com>


On Wednesday 07 May 2008 08:27, you wrote:
> Now maybe this has nothing to do with Objectivism.  I don't know that
> much about Objectivism with which to comment.  I do plan on reading
> more about it, but I don't think I'm going to subscribe.  I like the
> rational self-interest part, and I mostly like the capitalism part,
> but some other parts seem outdated and non-intuitive.  Did Rand ever
> reconcile her so-called "Objectivist metaphysics" with modern physics?
>  They seem to contradict one another.

Perhaps it is modern physics that is in error.

Science is not truth.  Science's epistemology results in building models
that
merely serve as an aid to understanding what *appears* to be true, without
necessarily actually describing what *is* true.

I would submit that philosophy is a vastly superior means for apprehending
the
Universe than science, precisely because philosophy's method, reason, is
much
more reliable than science's.
--
Kurt Weber
<kmw at kurtweber.us>