Robert Knapp (ex brother-in law of Shoshana Milgram, future Rand biographer) has a book out about mathematics. He is associated with the Ayn Rand Institute.
Well, the books just keep on coming, don't they? I don't see how you can get 532 pages on mathematical theory from Ayn Rand's theory of concepts, but what do I know.
Certainly things have changed for the better in terms of books by Objectivist writers. There was next to nothing not too long ago.
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"I don't see how you can get 532 pages on mathematical theory from Ayn Rand's theory of concepts, but what do I know." Indeed. Is the reasoning like this: "Introduction to Epistemology was a thin book, not thick book. Knapp has written a thick book, not a think book. So how can its fundamental ideas be informed by the thin book"?
think > thin
Somewhere in the mid-1990s, The Intellectual Activist published a long essay about the proper, rational basis of mathematical concepts. After about 6 pages of densely-syntaxed Objectivese (including speculations about the thought processes of cavemen), the authors sprang their bombshell, the ultimate principle underlying the entire edifice of human achievement. It was separate-paragraphed and bolded, as I recall:
1 = 1
I canceled my subscription the same day.
I suspect that this book is something very similar.
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