1979, nonfiction
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology
Rand's theory of concepts: how the mind forms concepts from perceptions by retaining the characteristics things share and omitting their particular measurements.
Serialised in The Objectivist in 1966 and 1967; published as a book in 1979 and expanded in 1990.
Ideas it carries
- Reason
The faculty that identifies and integrates what the senses provide; for Rand, man's only means of knowledge.
- Concept formation (measurement omission)
Concepts are formed by retaining what things share and omitting their particular measurements.