The Philosophy of "As If": A System of the Theoretical, Practical and Religious Fictions of Mankind Tracy Berger Michele leaving only Burrack to dispense

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Ayn Rand shows what the theories of Communism mean in practice

The exposition provides complete detailed proofs of results in an easy-to-read format using many examples and without the need to know and remember many complex definitions

The Philosophy of "As If": A System of the Theoretical, Practical and Religious Fictions of Mankind Tracy Berger Michele leaving only Burrack to dispenseVaihinger shows that thought is primarily a biological function turned into a conscious art. It is an art of adjustment, whose chief instrument is the construction of fictions by which men may manage to live. Thought is to be tested not by correspondence to an objective reality (that fiction is neatly disposed of) nor by its mirroring in consciousness an objective external world. Thought is to be tested by its fruits. The constructions of thought are