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*[[Primacy of Consciousness|"Primacy of consciousness."]] | *[[Primacy of Consciousness|"Primacy of consciousness."]] | ||
| − | *Facts are not "malleable." | + | *[[Fact|Facts]] are not "malleable." |
| − | *No alternative to a fact of reality is possible or imaginable. | + | *No alternative to a [[fact]] of reality is possible or imaginable. |
*Consciousness has identity. | *Consciousness has identity. | ||
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*The unit must be appropriate to the attribute being measured. | *The unit must be appropriate to the attribute being measured. | ||
| − | *Measurement-omission. | + | *[[Measurement omission|Measurement-omission.]] |
*The definitional principle is: wherever possible, an essential characteristic must be a fundamental. | *The definitional principle is: wherever possible, an essential characteristic must be a fundamental. | ||
| − | *Crow epistemology. | + | *[[Crow-epistemology|Crow-epistemology.]] |
| − | *Unit-economy. | + | *[[Unit-economy]]. |
*Thinking, to be valid, must adhere to reality. | *Thinking, to be valid, must adhere to reality. | ||
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*The law of contradiction. | *The law of contradiction. | ||
| − | *Human knowledge on every level is relational. | + | *Human [[knowledge]] on every level is relational. |
| − | *Knowledge follows a necessary order. | + | *[[Knowledge]] follows a necessary order. |
| − | *Rand's Razor. | + | *[[Rand's Razor|Rand's Razor.]] |
*The [[arbitrary]] cannot be cognitively processed. | *The [[arbitrary]] cannot be cognitively processed. | ||
Latest revision as of 02:33, 9 January 2012
A principle is "a fundamental, primary, or general truth, on which other truths depend." Thus a principle is an abstraction which subsumes a great number of concretes. It is only by a means of principles that one can set one's long-range goals and evaluate the concrete alternatives of any given moment. It is only principles that enable a man to plan his future and achieve it.["The Anatomy of Compromise", CUI, p144]
Some principles of Objectivism:
- Facts are not "malleable."
- No alternative to a fact of reality is possible or imaginable.
- Consciousness has identity.
- The faculty of reason is the faculty of volition.
- The unit must be appropriate to the attribute being measured.
- The definitional principle is: wherever possible, an essential characteristic must be a fundamental.
- Thinking, to be valid, must adhere to reality.
- "Existence is Identity; Consciousness is Identification."
- The law of contradiction.
- Human knowledge on every level is relational.
- Knowledge follows a necessary order.
- The arbitrary cannot be cognitively processed.
- Life as the standard of value.
