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Notions such as 'proof' and 'knowledge' all presuppose these three axioms. Thus, these axioms cannot be proven ''deductively'', because deduction requires these axioms (specifically, "A is A" is required for deductive logic to work in the first place).

 

 

Regardless of the above, the Objectivist position is that reality is real, you can't think it away, and all knowledge ''assumes'' that existence exists and things are what they are (i.e. there is something to know) and a knower with the capacity to know exists (i.e. you exist possessing consciousness).

It has to be emphasised again, however, that this is where most of the [[Flanderization]]/misrepresentation of Rand comes from; the fact that both [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] types, ''and'' their critics, tend to believe that Rand was in support of amoral/destructive forms of Capitalism.

 

 

Note that even amongst Objectivists there is some debate over the finer points of politics. Some are sympathetic to anarchism and think that the ideal society would have no state. Others are more moderate than Rand but are still undeniably Libertarians generally speaking. But the basic political principle of Objectivism is the sovereignty of the individual self over their own life and body. This is often summarized as the ''Non-Initiation of Force'' or ''Non-Aggression'' principle; that as long as no one initiates Force, Fraud or Coercion, all is good.