Porcfest2015

This talk explains the fundamental view of Objectivist epistemology: that human consciousness is notable for its capability of forming objective concepts based in the evidence of our senses. Assessible to people at any level of familiarity with philosophy or Ayn Rand's ideas, the talk will explain how it is possible to think in terms of objective abstractions even though all existents are particular and different. This talk provides a ground work in Objectivist concept theory and Ayn Rand's idea of “measurement omission,” and as such is a helpful entree to the definitions workshop planned for Tuesday and Wednesday.