Objectivism & "Metaphysics," Part 15 - 0 views
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You the reader can perceive every potentiality I have been discussing simply by observing your own consciousness. The extent of your knowledge or intelligence is not relevant here, because the issue is whether you use whatever knowledge and intelligence you do possess.
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Behind Peikoff’s argument is an important but unstated assumption. Peikoff is assuming that acts of introspection yield self-evident truth.
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Does introspection really yield self-evident facts? No, of course not. Nor is it an assumption that any Objectivist, from Rand down, would ever consistently adhere to.
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"Objectivist argument for free will. According to Objectivism, free will is "axiomatic," which means (1) it's "self-evident," "fundamentally given and directly perceived"; and (2) the denial of free will is self-refuting. Let's examine each of these claims." By Greg Nyquist at Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature on October 11, 2010.