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She's not responsible if people read her sloppily.

She says over and over that politics is not her primary goal but the advocacy of reason. She talks at great length about epistemology and metaphysics. She always integrates politics with more fundamental issues such as ethics and psychology, unlike libertarians.

She wrote a half dozen essays on esthetics. She wrote on the philosophy of education. She developed a new theory of universals.

Only people who "skim" and don't read each new idea....or who don't go far enough in her thought think she is a "libertarian philosopher" and that's the extent of it.

She had to talk at great length about politics because this has been a very dark century as far as destructive political systems are concerned.

Could she have written more, for example, on epistemology than one book? Yes I wish she had. But what she did contribute was novel and important. And she ran out of years.

-- Philip Coates, B.A. Brown, M.S. Michigan (posted 9/23, 4:40 p.m., E.D.T.)

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