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Parmenides in ancient Greece formulated the principle: what is, is. Or, in Ayn Rand's words: existence exists.
*[[Existence|Existence exists.]]
 
*[[Identity|The law of identity.]]
 
*[[Consciousness|Consciousness is conscious.]]
 
*[[Causality|The law of causality.]]
 
*[[Primacy of Existence|"Primacy of existence."]]
 
*[[Primacy of Consciousness|"Primacy of consciousness."]]
 
*Facts are not "malleable."
 
*No alternative to a fact of reality is possible or imaginable.
 
*Consciousness has identity.
 
*[[Volition|Volition.]]
 
*The faculty of reason is the faculty of volition.
 
*The unit must be appropriate to the attribute being measured.
 
*Measurement-omission.
 
*The definitional principle is: wherever possible, an essential characteristic must be a fundamental.
 
*Crow epistemology
 
*Unit-economy
 
*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.
 
*Rand's Razor
 
*The [[arbitrary]] cannot be cognitively processed.
 
*[[Mind-Body Dichotomy|Mind-body integration.]]
 
*Life as the standard of value.
 
*A "[[principle]]" is a general truth on which other truths depend.

Latest revision as of 20:59, 8 December 2011

  • 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.
  • Measurement-omission.
  • The definitional principle is: wherever possible, an essential characteristic must be a fundamental.
  • Crow epistemology
  • Unit-economy
  • 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.
  • Rand's Razor
  • The arbitrary cannot be cognitively processed.
  • Life as the standard of value.
  • A "principle" is a general truth on which other truths depend.