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I think Chip Poirot is mistaken in calling Rand an apriorist. Why and how is he mistaken? To answer this, one must understand how axioms of logic that are often thought of as a priori, can be induced from observations, so that they are a posteriori. Leonard Peikoff has written an article on how Aristotle did this. It appears in the 1985 (I think) volume of The New Scholasticism, under the title "Aristotle's Intuitive Induction."

-- Michael Hardy, assistant professor, UNCP (posted 4/16, 4:35 p.m., E.D.T.)
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