No, absolutely not. That's why I wanted to clarify. Stated in
this new way, that's Rand's axiom, and is utter nonsense. To "know"
something with certainty is to deny that empirical falsification of
the assertion is possible, and can only be true of meaningless
tautologies. Any meaningful assertion can be tested only by empirical
falsification, failure of which increases verisimilitude, but can
never lead to omniscience. Rand herself hand-waves the obvious away
by calling such knowledge "contextual", but when her concept is
clarified and reduced to its ultimate conclusion, it loses content
by reducing the context to those conditions that make the assertion
in question tautological.
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