You must attach clear specific meaning to words i.e be able to identify their referents in reality ..... All philosophical con games count on your using words as vague approximations. You must not take catchphrase - or any abstract statement - as if it were approximate. Take it literally. Dont translate it, dont glamorize it, dont make the mistake of thinking, as many people do "Oh nobody could possibly mean this ! and then proceed to endow it with some whitewashed meaning of your own.Take it straight for what it does say and mean.
Instead of dismissing the catch phrase, accept it as true, for a few brief moments. Tell yourself, in effect "If I were to accept it as true , what would follow ?" This is the bet way of unmasking any philosophical fraud...... To take ideas seriously means that you intend to live by, to practice, any idea you accept as true. Philosophy provides man with a comprehensive view of life. Inorder to evaluate it properly ask yourself what a given theory of accepted , would do to a human life , starting with your own. (Rand, 1982 . P.16)
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