Archive for June, 2009

Meeting Recap: Certainty as Contextual

Icon Written by wparker on June 5, 2009 – 12:19 pm

Sunday, May 31, the Columbus Objectivist Meetup discussed the contextual nature of certainty.  A proposition is certain when all available evidence supports it, and there are no contradictions with other known propositions.  A tension seems to exist between making useful statements and statements that are contextually certain. In the example Leonard Peikoff gives [...]



New OOS Meetup Location: Cincinnati, OH

Icon Written by myucha on June 1, 2009 – 8:26 am

We are pleased to announce a new Ohio Objectivist Society meetup location in Cincinnati Ohio! The first meeting will be Saturday June 6th at 3:00PM.
There will be a period of time at the beginning of the meeting to get to know one another followed by a general discussion on themes present in Atlas Shrugged. If [...]