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Are you even aware of the books and articles she wrote for decades? Check your premises.

Yes.

You don't seem to be.

Perfectly happy with haven given you this impression.

How far'd you make it in The Virtue of Selfishness before throwing it across the room for yet another dubious premise that's presented as fact without justification, used to build a giant sandcastle of reasoning upon, and never revisited with an eye to addressing the obvious objections to it?

Your notion that any philosophers write books that have complete philosophical justifications from metaphysics to politics in a single book is a strange one. As I told the other person not familiar with her writings, she has an incredible amount of books and essays. The most important being her book on epistemology.

The very least you could do is use the proper title:

Ayn Rand (1966/1979) Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology

it can be found on libgen, if people are really interested. (It's not a good book.)

> it can be found on libgen, if people are really interested. (It's not a good book.)

Yowzer. I'd never dug quite that deep. You're not kidding.

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