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Rand, Ayn: To duplicate any material on Rand here would be pointless. There is so much information both "approved" by her advocates, called Objectivists, and much written by her detractors, that it is best to simply provide hyperlinks and allow the reader to discover the wide range of literature. Use a search engine to find Ayn Rand, or use this link: http://freeassemblage.blogspot.com/2008/08/ayn-rand-resource-links.html for immediate references to dozens of online resources.
reason; nmemonic cognition of abstractions (from percepts) that allows for concept building and logic.
physiologic and psychologic: Neuro-biologically, reason is the "modus operandi" of the mind. Man's mind cannot work in any other way except when he makes a conscious effort to do so, or when he is mentally ill. The definition of mental health is proper cognitive functioning. In man that "proper functioning" is the faculty of reason, with rationality as the outcome.
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