No one is saying A is not A because Rand was a control freak. What we’re saying is that a lot of the superstructure of her philosophy supposedly founded on ‘A is A’ is rubbish and the most obvious example is her personal life; it’s a reductio. ‘Rand presumably was the person with the best understanding of Randianism, and these absurd actions & statements reflect her understanding; QED, Randianism is absurd.’
Great post.
Sure, let’s say we accept that Ayn Rand turned out to be a mega-bitch mad control freak in later life?
Does that mean that ‘A is A’ is somehow wrong?
Can anyone say ‘ad hominem fallacy’?
As an acquaintance of mine put it, “No, I’m sorry, Objectivism is not a theorem of the predicate calculus.”
No one is saying A is not A because Rand was a control freak. What we’re saying is that a lot of the superstructure of her philosophy supposedly founded on ‘A is A’ is rubbish and the most obvious example is her personal life; it’s a reductio. ‘Rand presumably was the person with the best understanding of Randianism, and these absurd actions & statements reflect her understanding; QED, Randianism is absurd.’