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  • noun Plural form of objectivist.

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  • In response to the claim that "she does not consider the collaborative context that makes individual success possible" I would argue that there is frequent reference to the thinkers and innovators that came before the heroes of the novels and the significance that their work had in inspiring new innovation. identify as objectivists today seem to be atheists

    reddit.com: what's new online! 2009

  • Not everyone who has power deserves it, and some of those people will use the recession and greed to control those who are rationally self-interested and moral people (in other words objectivists).

    BusinessWeek.com -- 2009

  • I did pick Jesus and Berkely because they opposed zealous "objectivists" in their own time, but as you point out that is just the pendulum of history doing the swinging.

    The essential paradigm of cyberspace 2006

  • All that separates Eggleston from these neo-objectivists, in fact, is his ability to avoid stylization, to achieve distinction without taking a distinctive kind of picture.

    Peter Frank: Pioneering Art: Three Retrospectives At LACMA Peter Frank 2011

  • Your own conviction is the only thing that should matter to you – not trying to admonish the poor misguided objectivists.

    Unforeseen difficulties. 2009

  • All that separates Eggleston from these neo-objectivists, in fact, is his ability to avoid stylization, to achieve distinction without taking a distinctive kind of picture.

    Peter Frank: Pioneering Art: Three Retrospectives At LACMA Peter Frank 2011

  • In my less than comprehensive (but more than fleeting) reading of objectivists it appears this so-called philosophy is nothing more than trying to figure out What would Ayn Rand say about it.

    Austrian Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The fed is a slow-changing institution and it has been ruled by assorted free market fairies and objectivists since about 1980.

    Matthew Yglesias » Fed Members Needed! 2010

  • Many in the tea-party movement are libertarians or objectivists.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: February 1, 2010 2010

  • But if they do this because of the bull**** they will have to put up in a nonclosed forum, and the costs of screening non-objectivists are simply too high to warrant, ... well then, it is certainly not the Objectivists that I am pissed off with.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Charles Murray on Ayn Rand: 2010

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