These are some of the basic concepts used throughout this website and in the books published by LODE Publishing. Some definitions are taken from the philosophy of Objectivism and are presented here with our interpretation and wording (you can read about “Objectivism from A to Z” in more detail and in the original form in the Ayn Rand Lexicon).
[glossary]
- "Bottleneck" of production
- A posteriori statement
- A priori knowledge
- A priori statement
- Acceptance criteria
- Adjective
- Adverb
- Aggregate
- Analytic statement
- Argument of the Law of Excluded Middle
- Atlas Shrugged
- Axiom
- Axiom of consciousness
- Axiom of Existence
- Axiom of identity
- Axiomatic system
- Backlog
- Basic concept of the opponents of copyright
- Bug reports
- Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
- Cargo cult
- Category
- Causality
- Cause
- Cliff-jumper argument
- Cognition
- Communication
- Concept
- Concept hierarchy
- Conceptual common denominator
- Configuration of a property
- Consciousness
- Contradiction
- Copyright
- Counter-argument
- Das Weisheitsbuch der alten Chinesen. Frühling und Herbst des Lü Bu We
- David Brin: Existence Talks at Google
- Deduction
- Definition
- Definition of done
- Definition of ready
- Doubly thoroughly structured language
- Effect
- Empiricism
- Entity
- eXtreme programming
- Fallacy of the Stolen Concept
- For The New Intellectual
- Free will
- Grenzerfahrung
- Hierarchy tree (of concepts)
- How Language Shapes Math
- Ideal (Ayn Rand ― A Sense of Life)
- Identity
- If You Want To Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
- Image
- In Defense of Dolphins: The New Moral Frontier
- Induction
- Inheritance (of a concept)
- Integration
- Intellectual property
- Intellectual property
- Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology
- Investment in a book
- Is-Ought Dichotomy
- Issue checklist for Jira
- Jira
- Knowledge
- Kritik der reinen Vernunft
- Language
- Letter
- Libertarian argument
- Life at the Bottom: The worldview that makes the underclass
- Logic
- Logical Structure of Objectivism
- Not thoroughly structured language
- Noun
- Object
- Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
- Perception
- Philosophy for Heroes - Part 5: Art and Heroism
- Philosophy for Heroes ― Part 1: Foundations of Knowledge
- Philosophy for Heroes ― Part 2: Science and Consciousness
- Philosophy for Heroes ― Part 3: Values and Illusions
- Philosophy for Heroes ― Part 4: Psychology and Religion
- Philosophy: Who Needs It
- Phoneme
- PMBOK
- Pointer
- Pomodoro technique
- Practical argument
- Process
- Product owner
- Property
- Qualia
- Rationalism
- Rebirth of Reason ― Objectivist Heroes
- Recursion and Human Thought: Why the Piraha Don't Have Numbers
- Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (Weak version)
- Sapir-whorf-Hypothese (strong version)
- Scrum
- Scrum Master
- Self-Evident Statement
- Self-reference (recursion)
- Sense data
- Sense organ
- Sensory organ
- Sentence
- Set
- Simply thoroughly structured language
- Situation
- Socionics
- Sprint
- Structure
- Subject
- Subtasks
- Syntax
- Synthetic statement
- System
- Tabula rasa
- Term
- The Annals of Lü Buwei
- The Art of Happiness
- The Axiom of Consciousness
- The Axiom of Identity
- The Concept of Heroes
- The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies Vol. 4, No.2
- The Last Unicorn
- The Ominous Parallels
- The perfect crime
- The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
- The Questions of Life
- The Selfish Gene
- The Singing Neanderthals ― the Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body
- The Virtue of Selfishness
- Theory of mind
- Two consistent positions
- Understanding Objectivism
- Value of a book
- Verb
- What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character
- Without copyright protection
- Word