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  • Autonomist Philosophy
    • What Philosophy is This?
    • With Reference to Objectivism
    • Metaphysics
      • Introduction to Metaphysics
      • Metaphysics—Part 1
      • Metaphysics—Part 2
    • Ontology
      • Objectives of Ontology
      • Basic Principles of Ontology
      • Ontological Hierarchy of Differentiation
      • Position, Motion, and Acceleration
      • Life
      • Consciousness and Volition
      • Answers to the Ontological Questions
    • Feelings
    • Desires
    • Consciousness
    • Perception
    • Qualities
    • Introduction to Concepts
    • Concepts—Simple
    • Life—An Addendum
    • The Physical—An Addendum
  • Freedom Philosophy
    • Foreword
    • Reality—An Introduction to Philosophy
    • Metaphysics
    • Ontology Introduction
    • Not Everything is Physical
    • Physicalist Superstition
    • Ontology, Kinds Of Existence
    • Disorder, Chaos, and Existence
    • The Nature of Life
    • The Nature of Consciousness
    • The Nature of Mind
    • Instinct
    • Perception
    • Emotions
    • Desires
    • Epistemology, Concepts
    • Epistemology, Propositions
    • Epistemology Mistakes
    • Certain Knowledge
    • Concepts
    • Values
    • The Moral Nature
    • Why Live in Society?
    • Human
    • Volition
    • Truth
  • How We Know
    • Foreword
    • Introduction
    • Basic Principles of Ontology
    • The Nature of Life
    • Animal Life
    • Consciousness
    • Perception
    • Dr. Binswanger's View of Perception
    • The Human Mind—Volition, Reason, Intellect
    • Feelings and Emotions
    • Desires
    • Concepts
    • Dr. Binswanger's View of Concepts
    • Cause, Induction, and Mathematics
    • Dr. Binswanger's View of Cause
    • Axioms
    • Knowledge, Perception, and Sensation
    • Knowledge Methods
    • Propositions
    • Dr. Binswanger's View of Propositions
    • Logic and Reason
    • Dr. Binswanger's View of Logic
    • Principles
    • Volition
    • Dr. Binswanger's View of Volition
    • Science, Evolution, and Philosophy
    • Evolution
  • Hijacking of a Philosophy
    • Foreword—Preliminary Comments
    • What's In A Name?
    • Assault of Non-essentials
    • False Premises and Methods
    • It's Not All Bad
    • Victims of What?
    • The Agenda
    • Degradation
    • Morality, Normality, and Decency
    • What's Wrong With Homosexuality?
    • Addendum - Sources of Confusion
    • Addendum 2 - Response to Early Comments
    • Links
  • Moral Practice
    • Must Choose
    • Own Mind
    • Must Learn
    • Must Think
    • Be One's Best
    • Must Work
    • Be Free
    • Right Relationships
    • Mind Own Business
    • Self Defense
  • Stories
    • Conversations with Raymond
      • Never Has, Never Will
      • A Queer Kind of Liberty
      • Who Ray Is
      • Love and Atheism
      • Be Prepared
      • Beauty
      • Beauty Again
      • Art
      • What's Important
      • Art and Culture
      • Conflicts
      • Irony
      • The Taste of Cinnamon
      • Nature of Consciousness
      • The Stuff of Life
    • Roger Stories
      • Roger at a Party
      • Roger and the Queers
      • Roger and the Girl
      • Roger at the Bookstore
      • The Free and the Poor
      • Roger—Illegal Alien
      • The Fermi Paradox
      • Roger's Work
      • Roger Answers Some Questions
      • Moving
      • Dinner Guests At Roger's
      • What's Wrong With The World?
      • Dinner
      • Sally
      • Insiders
      • Pool Party
      • True Gossip
      • An Evening at Roger's
      • Frank
      • The Family d'Anconia
      • An Announcement
      • Together Again
      • Roger's Departure—From Grief to Laughter
      • Dempsey Versus the Feds
      • New Friends and Religion
      • Peter, Jo, and Philosophy
      • Two Against the World
      • A Literary Convention, Of Sorts
      • A Disappearing Act
      • Writers
      • Exactly Who Are They?
      • God
      • They've Taken Andrew
      • The Nature Of Beauty, the Purpose of Art--A Literary Convention Concluded
      • About Plans
      • Ruth's Rescue Plan
      • The Ruth Scheme
      • Ruth's Rescue Adventure
      • Things Change
    • Nyranda
      • The Temple
      • Grandon
      • Yuwon
      • ToyLin
      • The Catastrophy Islands
      • Ascending
      • Jasmine
      • The Underground
      • Preparation and Decisions
      • Guns
      • The Tunnel
      • Bullroarer
      • Light
      • Hostel
      • Delays and Plans
      • ChildIsle
      • Making Thessaline
      • Descending
      • Watching and Nebers
      • First Conclusion
      • What Now?
      • Everything Changes
      • Second Conclusion
      • Nyranda Notes
    • Nyranda Adventures
      • Games
      • On Stove Pipe Hill
      • Trashers
      • Brittany
      • Plans
      • The Second Climb
      • A Sea Cave
      • Strategy
      • An Attempted Rescue
      • Freddy and Brittany
      • Tying Up Threads
      • Nothing Lasts Forever, Everything Changes
      • Nyranda Adventures Notes
    • Jamaica
    • Undocumented
    • Tathagatagarbha
      • The Wisdom of Tathagatagarbha
      • Notes On Tathagatagarbhaianism
  • Mind Benders
    • Introduction
    • Mind-Bending Concepts
      • Perception
      • Non-linear Thinking
      • Critical Thinking
      • Simplistic
      • Teams
      • Leadership
      • Consensus
      • Synergy, Emergence and Holism
      • Paradigm
    • The de Bono Brothers
    • Open Letter to Chuck Frey
    • The Gödel Fallacy
    • Mark Hamilton & Neo-tech
    • The Covey Coven
    • Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®)
    • Critical Thinking about Critical Thinking
  • Cultural Marxist Revolution
    • Marxist Revolution of the West
    • The Uncivilizing Revolution of The West
    • Characteristics of Civilized People
    • Profanity
    • American Decadence—Part 1 of 4
    • American Decadence—Part 2 of 4
    • American Decadence—Part 3 of 4
    • American Decadence—Part 4 of 4
    • The Roots of Revolution
    • Hume—Part 1
    • Hume—Part 2
    • Hume—Part 3
    • Hume—Part 4
    • Psychology's Anticivilizing Influence on the West
  • Racism and Anti-Semitism
    • Racism
    • Racism and Anti-Semitism—Part 1
    • Racism and Anti-Semitism—Part 2
    • Racism and Anti-Semitism—Part 3
    • Racism and Anti-Semitism—Part 4
    • Racism and Anti-Semitism—Part 5
    • Racism and Anti-Semitism—Part 6
    • Racism and Anti-Semitism—Part 7
  • Social Chaos
    • Disorder, Chaos, and Existence
    • Social Chaos—Part 1
    • Social Chaos—Part 2
    • Social Chaos—Part 3
    • Social Chaos—Part 4
  • Ten Mistakes
    • 1. The Secret of Success
    • 2. The Prophets Among Us
    • 3. Fighting For Your Rights
    • 4. Reality Is What It Is
    • 5. Things Will Not Get Better
    • 6. Everybody Is Different
    • 7. You Make Your Own World
    • 8. You Will Never Be Appreciated
    • 9. You Owe Nothing to Society
    • 10. You Cannot Save The World
  • Untrue Things
    • Most Of What You Believe Is Not True
    • Rights
    • Justice
    • Duty and Honor
    • Patriotism
    • Laws
    • Natural Law
    • Real Law Versus Man-Made Law
    • Penal Law
    • Why Do Most People Believe What Is Not True?
    • Government
    • Organizations
    • Teams
    • Unions
    • Corporations
    • Contracts
    • Constitutions
    • Psychology
    • Emotions
    • Repression
    • Evolution
    • Environmentalism & Ecology
    • Sociology
    • Anthropology
    • Science
  • Anti-War
    • Anti-War
    • Costs of War
    • Profits of War
    • The Peace That Makes War
    • American's Lust for War
    • War is a Racket
      • Chapter 1--War is a Racket
      • Chapter 2--Who Makes the Profits?
      • Chapter 3--Who Pays the Bills?
      • Chapter 4--How to Smash this Racket
      • Chapter 5--To Hell With War
  • Articles
    • If They Believe That—Religion
    • Philosophical Smoke and Mirrors
    • Truth & Superstition
    • Jimping the Sleeg
    • Homosexuality is Not the Issue
    • Consciousness Itself
    • Life
    • Existence Exists
    • Objectivism Syncretism
    • Brave New Objectivism
    • Free Speech
    • If They Believe That—Medicine
    • If They Believe That—Science
    • Philosophy - What Is It?
    • What is Superstition?
    • What's Wrong with Humanism
  • Free Individual
    • The Nature of Cause
    • Reason And Its Enemies
    • Proof
    • Intuition
    • Hatred of Reality
    • Reality
    • Two Big Lies
    • Taken In
    • Justice
    • Social Justice
    • Deceitful Trinity
    • Critical Thinking about Critical Thinking
    • Pedagogy
    • Sui Generis
    • Social Paranoia
    • Genius Idiots
    • The Illusion of Importance
    • Maxims for Revolutionists
    • Eccentrics
    • USA Gone?
    • A Different Life
    • Harry Browne's Freedom Principles
    • Cory The Well Driller
    • No Political Solution
    • Underground
    • Politics, A Joke
    • The Privileged
    • Postmodernism, A Psychosis
    • Prussian "Public" Schools
    • The Allure of Anarchy
    • Your Freedom Now (Part 3 of 3)
    • Your Freedom Now (Part 2 of 3)
    • Your Freedom Now (Part 1 of 3)
    • Your Personal Freedom
    • Must Choose
    • Independence—Better Than Morality
    • Freedom Not For Everyone
    • Atoms and Apples
  • Freedom Underground
    • Liberty Liars
    • The Virtue of Vice
    • Wonderful World
  • Freedom Wisdom
    • What Are You Living For
    • What Are You Waiting For?
    • Why Do You Want to Be Free?
    • The Dignity of Freedom
    • Freedom, Not Vice
    • Basic Knowledge
    • Food for Free Thinking
    • Diversions From Freedom
    • Never Explain
    • Making Money
    • Practical Freedom
    • Everybody Is Different
    • Being Truly Yourself
    • You Can't Fake It
    • Freedom Is A Family Affair
    • Dead, or Alive and Free?
    • A Free Individual—Ghost
    • Free Individuals
    • Nothing To Worry About
    • Against The Flow
    • A Penny Saved Is Not A Penny Earned
    • Be A Ragnar Danneskjold
  • Freedom and Privacy
    • Freedom Methods that Won't Work
    • Free Society, The Unrealizable Ideal
    • They Love Their Servitude
    • Government vs Gun Rights
    • Guns, Security, and the Three Ps
    • Making Yourself Free
    • The Price of Freedom
    • Freedom Now
    • Freedom vs. Government
    • The Price of Your Freedom
    • What is Freedom?
    • Makings Lots of Money
  • Incidental
    • What and How to Learn
    • Practical Freedom
    • Knowledge
    • Science Philosophy
    • Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs
    • The Subconscious Fallacy
    • Religion's Fault
    • The Sociable Animal
    • Ordinary And Extraordinary
    • The Only Path To Success And Happiness
    • There Are No Shortcuts
    • Feelings and Emotions
    • Habituation
    • Hated—The Individualist In a Collectivist World
    • Morality Mistakes
    • No Subconscious
    • Magic Thinking
    • Correct Thinking
    • Two Moral Principles--Knowledge and Reason
    • Silly Religion
    • Integrity
    • An Atheist's Defence of Christianity
    • Dismal Economics
    • Banality Verses Romanticism
    • Amoral NAP
    • Ethical Principles
    • Values
    • Morality and Freedom
    • The Exceptional--Alma Deutscher
    • NIP versus NAP
    • Egoists and Anti-egoists
    • Sentimental Journey
    • Only Individuals
    • Seriously
    • Libertarianism, Economics, and Other Absurdities
    • Bright Future
    • The Nature of Consciousness
    • The Nature of Life
    • Ontology—A Brief Introduction
    • Perception
    • To My Skeptical Friends
    • Gullibility and Skepticism
    • Evolution
    • Science
    • A Priori
    • Feelings
    • Mind
    • Instinct
    • Objective Ethics for Freedom and Happiness
    • What's Wrong With NAP
    • Gullible 2—Critical Thinking
    • Gullible
    • What is Freedom?
    • Be One's Best
    • Individual Freedom
    • What is Freedom (from government)?
    • The Lowest Animal
    • What Will You Do With Freedom?
  • Individualism
    • Atlas Shrugged: A Model for Individualist Revolution
    • Ayn Rand—Autonomist
    • Individualism—Not Objectivism
    • Saving The World
    • What Is an Individualist
    • Hated—The Individualist In a Collectivist World
    • Love and Hate at First Sight
    • Ayn Rand's Mistake
    • The Individualist's Challenge
    • The Individualist's Challenge Continued
    • Individualism Is The Only Path to Freedom and Civilization
    • No Political Solution
    • Moral Defense And The Use Of Force
  • Islamic Terrorism
    • Islamic Maggots—Part I
    • Islamic Maggots—Part II
    • Terrorism
    • Muslim Does Not Mean Arab
    • What is an Arab?
  • Objectivism
    • Beyond Objectivism
    • Perception
    • A Universal Mistake
    • Beyond Objectivism - Introduction
    • Knowledge of Particulars
    • My Friend, Ayn Rand
    • Psychological Flaws, Corruptions, Errors, and Wrong Premises
    • Measurement
    • Retaliation
    • About Force
    • Turpitude
    • OINO's Paranoid Fear of Christians
    • An Athiest's Defence of Christianity
    • Objective vs. Subjective Egoism
  • Not Serious
    • Never Take Any Of It Seriously
    • What Is "It"?
    • Controllers, Meddlers and Individualist
    • Who Can Be Free?
    • Ayn Rand, Beauty, Love, and Tenderness
    • Decent People Matter
    • Reality
    • Religion and Freedom
    • Psychological Flaws, Corruptions, Errors, and Wrong Premises
    • Black Swans
    • Child Independence
    • Libertarian Statistics
    • Ayn Rand's Ethics
    • Valentine Flowers for Every Girl
    • Why Do Most People Believe What Is Not True?
    • Collectivists
    • Islam Never Has To Be Taken Seriously
    • No More Philosophy
    • Not Just Idiots, but Blithering Idiots
    • Anarchism
  • General Philosophy
    • Logical Fallacies, Formal and Informal
    • Clear Thinking
    • Human Consciousness: the Mind—Volition, Reason, Intellect
    • Emotions: Their Importance and Control
    • Nobody Wants To Know The Truth
    • Descent Into Postmodernist Hell
    • Postmodernism, A Psychosis
    • Existentialism
    • Abstraction and Symbols
    • Assaults on Reality and Knowledge
    • The Right Way to Do the Wrong Thing
    • Religion and Absolute Moral Values
    • Capitalism: Not What It Used To Be
    • Abelard and Universals
    • Three Greeks
    • Saving Science
    • The Nature of Life
  • Pseudo-Science
    • Green Evil—A Hate Speech
    • Anti-human Environmentalists
    • PEEism—America's Dominant Religious Cult
    • Environmental Hegemony
    • Unpredictability and Environmentalism
    • Repress, Repress, Repress
  • Culture, Society, Politics
    • Sex, Love, and Marriage
    • Ayn Rand, Doctors, and a Good Book
    • The Secret Key to Everything
    • The Perfect Human Diet—More Food Nonsense
    • Decadence and Decency
    • Free Society, The Unrealizable Ideal
    • No Political Solution
    • Demonstrations, Protests, and Other Adolescent Tantrums
    • No, It's _Not_ Normal
    • Your Money is Dirty
    • Food Fools
    • "Intellectual Property" Versus the Free Market
    • Hitchens And Good
    • Betrayer Of Freedom
    • Anarchism and Society
    • Libya
    • Gaddafi's Murder
    • Conservatives' Perennial Mistake
    • Patent Absurdity and Tyranny of the Mind
    • More Patent Absurdity
      • Part One
      • Part Two
      • Part Three
    • Education and Children
    • If You Spank Him, He Will Not Die
    • The Egypt Gyp
    • Neocon's Love Darkness, Because Their Deeds Are Evil
    • Freedom and Gullibility
  • Daily Freedom
    • Introduction
    • Why Do You Want To Be Free?
    • Holiday Freedom
    • Feeling Free
    • Free Anywhere
    • Free Yourself
    • You Cannot Do That and Be Free—The Military
    • The Trouble Is With You
    • Harry Browne
    • Free, Not Flim-Flammed
    • The Freedom Challenge
    • Lessons of Hawala
    • Be A Ragnar Danneskjold
    • Shedding the Shackles
    • Freedom Is Personal
    • Summler's Notes
    • Free Individuals, not Society
    • More Freedom Challenge
    • Harry's Freedom Principles
    • Rights or Freedom
    • Freedom From The System
    • Freedom's Infinite Potential
    • Against The Flow
    • The Free Family
    • Freedom: Do It Yourself
    • Dead, or Alive and Free?
    • Freedom Is A Family Affair
    • Nobody Wants Freedom
    • Diversions From Freedom
    • Tell Me How To Be Free
    • Freedom Is Freedom To Work
    • Eccentrics
    • Individualists
    • Individualists or Autonomists
    • Freedom, Only For Individualists
    • Food For Freedom
    • What's Important?
    • An American Individualist
    • Your Own Path
    • More Knowledge Resources
    • No Problem For Individualists
    • Individualism Is A Principle, Not Politics
    • Reason, Not Feelings
    • The God of Reality [SFI-1]
    • Freedom's Virtues—Integrity
    • Finish The Job! [SFI-2]
    • Freedom's Virtues—Responsibility
    • Individual Rebels
    • Pain [SFI-3]
    • Freedom's Virtues—Honesty
    • Pleasure [SFI-4]
    • Love and Hate [SFI-5]
    • What Are You Waiting For?
    • Freedom's Virtues—Competence
    • Some Seeking Freedom
    • Philosophy And Religion [SFI-6]
    • Books For A Penny
    • Freedom's Virtues—Productivity
    • Individual Choice [SFI-7]
    • Do Right! [SFI-8]
    • Freedom's Virtues—Dignity
    • Freedom Outlaws
    • Freedom's Virtues—Courage
    • Freedom, Not Vice
    • Wisdom And Knowledge [SFI-9]
    • Entertainment—Part 1 of 4
    • Entertainment—Part 2 of 4
    • Entertainment—Part 3 of 4
    • Entertainment—Part 4 of 4
    • Good Reading
    • A Different Life
    • Some Freedom Resources
    • Free In The Whole World
    • Close, But No Cigar
    • Stop Wasting Your Time
    • The Positive Pursuit Of Freedom
    • Don't Join
    • No Dilemma
    • Thinking Freedom
    • Freedom Restart
    • Drugs, Homosexuals, and Pornography
    • False Dichotomies
    • Unknown and Unknowable
    • Using The Government
    • Only For The Incompetent and Unscrupulous
    • Freedom Ethics
    • Ayn Rand Books and Resources
    • Money
    • Objectivism, Individualism, and Freedom
    • Online Resources
    • Expats and PT
    • Freedom Philosophy
    • Independent Living
    • Practical Freedom
    • Saving and Investing
  • Bonus Material
    • Memory
    • Consciousness Illustrated
    • Volition Illustrated
    • Notes on Ethics
    • Counting and Adding
    • Dispelling a Certain Danger
    • Emotions and the Nature of Consciousness
    • Matter and Entity Ontology
    • Notes on Ontology
    • Order, Universals, and Hylomorphism
    • Questions and Answers to Regi's article on Perception
    • Random to Habituated Behavior
    • Rand’s Mistake—What is the Mind?
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