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What's in Your File Folder? Part 3: Differentiation and Integration in Logic (and Illogic)
- Journal of Ayn Rand Studies
- Penn State University Press
- Volume 18, Number 2, December 2018
- pp. 229-307
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ABSTRACT:
In this third installment of his series on key, underappreciated ideas in Ayn Rand's epistemology, the author discusses the nature of differentiation and integration as the functional essence of consciousness and applies that insight to various cognitive and noncognitive processes of awareness, with a special emphasis on logic and illogic. He offers an extended analysis of the fallacies of "Frozen Abstraction" and "False Alternative," as well as critiques of a long-standing Objectivist conflation of falsity and contradiction and a relatively more recent Objectivist error, the fallacy of "genuine awareness."