Necessary Facts

Observations, reports, and discoveries that are true of necessity because they are perceivable and reasonable, empirical and logical, evidentiary and rational, synthetic and analytic. Truths are objective statements.

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Saturday, June 26, 2021

An Objective Philosophy of Science

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In framing her philosophy as capital-O Objectivism, Ayn Rand was following in the tradition of Enlightenment objectivism, which was never ex...

Saturday, January 2, 2021

Ten Years of Necessary Facts

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This blog was launched on 2 January 2011. It was inspired by Gregory Browne’s Necessary Factual Truths (University Press of America, 2001)...

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

The Scientific Method

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On the Galt’s Gulch Online discussion board, I went around with one of my Objectivist comrades on whether or not publication is required. ...

Monday, February 17, 2014

Fossils and Behaviors

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Sub-adult American alligator in Pearl River Delta, Mississippi. Photo by Kristine Gingras from the journal artlcle. Crocodile...

Friday, February 7, 2014

The Validity of the Senses

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On the “Galt’s Gulch” discussion board for fans of the movie Atlas Shrugged, username Maphedus asked an old question: “ How do we ...

Sunday, November 3, 2013

god is not Great

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god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens ( New York : Twelve, 2007) delivers a coordinated series of comp...

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