Submitted by DirtyOldPanties t3_z71wki in philosophy
bildramer t1_iyaovvq wrote
Reply to comment by freddy_guy in Real Philosophers Don’t Just Reflect the Trendy Consensus by DirtyOldPanties
Your comment takes it for granted that Rand's views are wrong and expects that refuting them should be straightforward, and never offers any attempted refutations of actual positions.
Like, "I hear X but there's an obvious response to it I can think of, Y, and I'm sure people have written books and gotten degrees on Y, so it's been definitively addressed, I'm certain" is borderline fallacious in this day and age. You go check and the learned academics are also writing nothing more than tumblr posts, refering to each other, never actually bothering to refute X, assuming someone else did it.
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