14 – Don Watkins: Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand, Epistemology and Wealth
Arjun Khemani Podcast
Observation Is Not a Source of Knowledge
There's a lot of good stuff one can gain from I in Rand's philosophy. But we don't need to reject her philosophy entirely if we have to reject part of it. Observation is not a source of knowledge, you cannot observe the quote unquote facts of reality. Repeated observation is not going to get you one Jack closer to the truth. The purpose of observation is only to test our theories.
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