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A philosophy inseparably connected to the name of its creator (and namer), Russian-American writer [[
Plato divided philosophy into four primary branches; Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics and Politics. Objectivism has positions in each of these areas:
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Objectivism argues that; 1) There is something. 2) That it exists ''independently of your consciousness'' and you can't simply think it into non-existence.
You may ask "how can I know this? How can you know this? How can [[
Objectivist metaphysics thus stiplulates three ''axioms'', i.e. undeniable, irreducible facts, describe how reality works:
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Rand identified many arguments that ''ignore'' this fact. For instance, the phrase "Reality is an illusion" ignores this fact when read literally in English; the concept 'illusion' refers to a ''falsification of reality'' and if there is no reality in the first place, there is nothing ''to'' falsify. The existence of reality is a ''prerequisite'' or ''assumption'' of the existence of illusions. This is a statement which, according to Rand, ''denies its own assumptions.'' She referred to this fallacy as ''[[Stolen Concept|The Fallacy of the Stolen Concept]]''.
The second point about knowledge that Rand placed great emphasis on was that knowledge is ''contextual'', i.e. it is knowledge about ''something in particular'' and thus only applies to that particular thing. [[It Makes Sense in Context|Concepts have a context]]. This is also often missed, to catastrophic results. For instance, some socially conservative political commentators once accused [[
This fallacy, taking an idea relevant in one context and dropping it into a completely different context, is known as ''Context-Dropping''. It is more empirical than the Stolen Concept Fallacy, and can also be said to apply when any idea derived from Set-Of-Experiences A is employed in Set-Of-Experiences B without any modifications to adjust for the different sets of experiences.
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