Conceptualization - Objectivist Epistemology in Outline: Lesson 3

The focus for the third day is on the process of conceptualizing as a whole. Topics include: how the formation of a concept commits one to a policy of inducing and deducing, the difference between first-level and higher-level concepts, how different sorts of higher-level concepts depend on earlier concepts, how first-level judgments (including first-level generalizations) are justified directly on the basis of perception and how higher-level judgments are based on lower-level ones, the distinction between the hierarchies of knowledge and of generality, the role of axiomatic concepts as integrators of knowledge, and how Rand’s conception of reason differs from both rationalism and empiricism.

This course was recorded at the 2006 Objectivist Summer Conference in Boston, MA.

Lesson 3 of 4 in Objectivist Epistemology in Outline

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[gykyqew]

24:30 two ways of higher level concepts
28:40 two interacting directions
37:15 concept of characteristics

[williamhyman]

Thank you and this is why #AynRand and her philosophy of #Objectivism was paramount in concluding my correct concept that MAN is one race only.. Aristotle started it for Me, but it wasn't his goal to seek the idea that man was one race, he knew that, but how did he know the form of MAN, Man of many shapes and colours, but one form was one particular kind of animal.. If animal at all..? Well thank you Ayn Rand Institute and her philosophy of Objectivism..once you grasp that.. The entire narrative of race of a human and its - isms & - ists is an argument that doesn't exist, but has hurt men & women.. Its from a bad bad subjective philosophy of the 1700's..

[GeorgWilde]

Are differentiation and integration concepts or faculties?

[JD-jlyy]

Ayn Rand's ""philosophy"" is disgusting and has made the world a worse place.