Guyau

New - Books to Mind

.......... Schelling's "ich=ich"

. . . . . .New Anti-Kant

. . . . . .Bernard Bolzano – Theory of Science

. . . . . .Reinhold's Foundation in "The Fact of Consciousness"

Objectivity
Objectivity Archive
Subject Index Key

"Universals and Measurement"*

I. Orientation

II.A Analysis – Affordance of Ratio or Interval Measures
II.B Analysis – Affordance of Ordinal Measures
II.C Analysis – Superordinates and Similarity Classes

II.D Analysis – Amended Measure-Definitions of Similarity and Concepts

II.E Analysis – Conclusion of Core Task

III. Genesis

III.A Genesis – Elaboration of Identity

III.B Genesis – First Words, First Universals

III.C Genesis – Analytic Constraint

Notes

References
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Comments on III. A, B, C
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– Piece-Wise Ordinal / Entity Measure / Category Theory
– Abstractions / Particulars / Themes
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"Judgments and Measurement"

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"Capturing Concepts"
Introduction
I. Categorical Perception
II. Reference and Specification
III. Measure and Matter
IV. Abstraction
V. Identity and Definition
References
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Follow-up

– Proper-Noun Concepts

– Definite Concept and Phrase-Length
– The Concept Thought
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"Capturing Quantity" – 1, 2, 3

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"Randian Axioms and Postulates in Metaphysics"
Basics / Identity with Measurement
I. Exclusions of Non-Contradiction: Entities
Part 1 – Identity as to Kind
Part 2 – Identity as to Particularity
II. Exclusions of Non-Contradiction: Actions
III. Exclusions of Non-Contradiction: Attributes
Part 1 – Locke
Part 2 – Leibniz I
Part 3 –
Part 4 –

Metaphysics and Life
– There Is and I Am
– Your Love of Existence
– Thought's Living Existence

– Beauty, Goodness, Life

Philosophy of Perception
– Sensory Qualities: Their Relation to Sensory System and World
– Primary/Secondary Qualities
– Peirce on Perception and Conception
– Perception and Objectivity (& Supplement)
– Object and Content

Intuition
"Peirce contra Intuition and Self-Evidence"
. . Introduction
. . I. Anselm of Canterbury
. . II. Roger Bacon
. . . . –––Avicenna
. . . . –––Neoplatonists
. . . . –––Plato

Logic

– On Logic, Aristotle and Rand

– Origin of 'A is A' Formula
– Between False, Invalid, and Meaningless
– Meaningless Tautology
– Normativity of Logic – Kant v. Rand
– Normativity of Logic - Robert Hanna
– Predication on Identity
– Contradiction with the Individual Concrete
– Identity Manifold
– Philosophy of Logic
– Modal Logic
– Quantum Logic
– Why Be Logical?
– Epistemology and Logic

Integration

From Integrity to Calculus

Integration in Rand – from integrity to calculus

to Piaget, Montessori, and Helmholtz

Theory of Truth
"Truth of Geometry"
. . Part 1 – Aristotle
. . Part 2 – Locke and Leibniz
. . Part 3 – Kant, Precritical
. . Part 4 – Kant, Critical (forthcoming)

“Perception and Truth – Kant and Rand”

. . I. Sense and Mind – Rand

. . II. Empirical Realism – Kant A, B, C, D, E

. . III. Empirical Judgment – Kant and Rand A, B, C, D, E

“Objectivist Theory of Truth”

"Analytic-Synthetic Distinction"
. . Part 1 – Quine
. . Part 2 – White and Rand-Peikoff
. . Part 3 – Objective Analyticity

. . Part 4 – Aristotole to Abelard (forthcoming)

Change and Causality

– Induction and Causality
– Causal Power of Attributes
– Inhering, yet Causing
– Rand's Law of Causality without Uniqueness
– Identity to Causality / Meyerson / Ockham
– Ontology of Time
– Gradients and Drivers
– Types of Cause

"Induction on Identity"
Introduction
I. Varieties of Induction
II. Ockham – Contingency
III. Nicolaus – Experience of Substance
IV. Nicolaus – Reasoning to Substance
V. Hume – Experience of Cause and Effect
VI. Hume – Reasoning to Cause or Effect
VII. Hume – Necessity
VIII. Hume – Uniformity
IX. Existence is Identity

"Volitional Synapses"
Conscious Controls / Psychoneural Relation
Hypothetical Necessity
Physical and Organic Determinism / Deterministic Error

Ayn Rand Society 2007
– Foundations of Ethics: Objectivism and Analytic Philosophy – Irfan Khawaja
– Addendum to My Comment – Concerning Nozick 2001
– Concerning Paul Bloomfield's Comment

Mathematics in Science
– Functions of Mathematical Description in Astronomy and Optics, Illustrations from Antiquity
– Angular Momentum and Causation
– Rainbows –
—Aristotle
—Ibn Sahl
—Ibn al-Haytham / Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi / Kamal al-Din al-Farisi / Roger Bacon
—Theodoric of Freiberg A, B

Philosophy of Science
– Between Realism and Constructive Empiricism
– Thomas Kuhn

Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
– Transactional Interpretation

"Space, Rotation, Relativity"
I. Descartes / Huygens
II. Newton / Leibniz
III. Kant
IV. Ampere / Faraday / Maxwell / Einstein

Scientific Cosmology
– Copernican Revolution and Significance
– Universe as a Concrete
– Totality Referent
– General Relativity and Cosmology – a, b
– Einstein Online
– Total Angular Momentum of Universe
– By Microwave and Radio
– Endless Existence – a, b
– Roger Penrose – Cycles of Time

Kant
– Metaphysics of Kant and Rand
– Space, Rotation, Relativity – Kant
– Kant and Principia
– Kant from A to Bxxx (&)
– Mysticism – Kant and Rand
– Categories
"Kant's Wrestle with Happiness and Life"
. . Part 1 – to 1781
. . Part 2 – towards 1785
. . Part 3 – into 1785
. . Part 4 – Moral Worth, Necessary and Free – A, B

– Dewey and Peikoff on Kant's Responsibility

Nietzsche v. Rand
– Your Moral Ideal
– Claiming Nobility
– Parallels and Influence
"Truth of Will and Value"
. . Part 1 – Before Zarathustra
. . Part 2 – Zarathustra and Beyond
. . ––––––– Rand 1929–38 A, B, C
. . ––––––– Rand 1938–46 A, B, C, D, E
. . ––––––– Rand in Full

Rand and Biology
– Rand's Concept of Biology Part 1 / Part 2
– Reservation on Evolution
– Scientific within Rational
– Vegetative Robots and Value

Rational Egoism
– Function of Mind
– Function of Ethics
– A Rejection of Egoism
– Supported Choice to Live
– Desire to Value
– Altruism
– Sacrifice
– Value Out There
– Visibility, Benevolence, and Egoism – a, b

Ayn Rand
– Original, True, Important
– To Think
– Blok
– Universals
– Three Treasures
– Rejection
– Objectivist Label – a, b
– Soul, Structure, Struggle