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5586210 No.5586210 [Reply] [Original]

Is "anti-concept" a good concept? I have a feeling more people would use it in their rhetoric if they weren't afraid of being mistaken for Randians.

>> No.5586223
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5586223

>>5586210
Define "good".

>> No.5586224

Examples of things that may (or may not) be considered anti-concepts (at least in some contexts):

>social justice
>honour
>race/gender equality
>left/right, conservative/progressive
>patriotism

>> No.5586228

>>5586223
Constructive, useful for intellectual debate or scholarship.

>> No.5586247

bump

>> No.5586267

buuump

>> No.5586271

>>5586228
Butthurt, unable to provide an intelligent or good answer.

>> No.5586275

>>5586271
What, did you think I insulted you?
That was my definition of "good" as in "good concept".

>> No.5586286

>>5586275
lol then that post was better than I though. But yes, I'd say they can be good concepts then.
I should take a break from this board, I'm starting to have a hard time getting shit that's not sarcasm.

>> No.5586292

>>5586286
lel, you really should

>> No.5586329

>>5586292
final bump

>> No.5586392

>>5586210
What is "anti-concept"?

>> No.5586734

>>5586392
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/anti-concepts.html

>An anti-concept is an unnecessary and rationally unusable term designed to replace and obliterate some legitimate concept. The use of anti-concepts gives the listeners a sense of approximate understanding. But in the realm of cognition, nothing is as bad as the approximate . . . .

In other words, any concept that is in reality a vague, self-contradictory, fallacious buzzword (that is difficult to even call an idea). Some (very arguable) anti-concepts are: >>5586224

>> No.5586765

Rejecting all objectivist tenets out of hand is a bad idea. I hadn't heard of the anti-concept before and now I'm thinking I should try to get a better grasp on Rand's ideas just because that one seems useful.

>> No.5586772

>>5586734
>any concept that is in reality a vague, self-contradictory, fallacious buzzword
So all of them? I mean, the way this "anti-concept" is used (very vague selection of what is and isn't anti-concept with a belief in a strong and clear-cut opposition) makes me think that it is itself an anti-concept par excellence.
I actually don't see much difference between the above and calling any perspective you don't like ideological (in opposition to yours which is beyond ideology), which is of course itself a very ideological practice.