Damus
Kevin's BLAKE2bacon · 80w
I might as well say you just "have faith" in your axioms and leave it at that, but that would not be a good faith engagement with your framework of metaphysics and how you arrived at it. You are also...
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Well, from an objectivist point of view, Rand discusses the axiomatic nature of the assumption that there is an objective reality which is knowable and that valid concepts should refer to them.

Going further back in metaphysics, Aristotle in “Metapphysics” book gamma the less, discusses these axioms.

But if you seriously want to reject that, which some philosophers have, then in my view this discussion must be meaningless, as it refers to nothing, and I find that rather uninteresting.
Pawn Dev · 80w
The study of natural reality and social structures and truths surely has it's place, but I don't see how it negates the metaphysical truths. Objectivism and other such philosophies look to reality through a certain scope (all sciences must have a scope and a proper object, and no science can compreh...
Kevin's BLAKE2bacon · 80w
I do nothing of the sort. I'm a believer in objective truth. I just don't go about expecting everyone to conceive of it exactly the way that I do before even entertaining their conversations to understand them. No one has the exact same understanding as you. A good epistemology and good discussion s...