Comments on: Bishop quote

By: John Armstrong

John Armstrong — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:57:00 +0000

Well right off I can see a problem. “A is A” is an axiom schema, not an axiom. I always knew those people were intellectually sloppy.

By: Michael Greinecker

Michael Greinecker — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:22:12 +0000

Andrej Bauer, who seems to have a certain sympathy for constructivism actually wrote a nice parody of objectivism: Become an Objectivist
in Ten Easy Steps.

By: Walt

Walt — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 04:37:50 +0000

I did the same search as sigfpe, but it looks like Randians are contrasting constructivism to objectivism. (I guess they mean constructivism in the sense of “reality is social constructed”.)

By: sigfpe

sigfpe — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:19:54 +0000

Not one to let an unsubstantiated comment stand I googled the four queries:

objectivism constructivism “home page”
objectivism -constructivism “home page”
-objectivism constructivism “home page”
-objectivism -constructivism “home page”

to find the number of home pages of people professing either ideology.

I then constructed the table of number of occurences of these two words:

653 87,400
177,000 1,1760,000,000

A chi-squared test shows this to be off the scale for significance. So there is, indeed, a correlation.

By: andy.s

andy.s — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 23:10:17 +0000

For some reason this guy strikes me as someone who’s really into Ayn Rand.

Have you noticed any correlation between constructivists and objectivists?