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Abstractions as such do not exist: they are merely mans epistemological method of perceiving that which existsand that which exists is concrete.

The Psycho-Epistemology of Art,
The Romantic Manifesto, 23

See also: Concepts; Perception; Platonic Realism.

.Copyright 1986 by Harry Binswanger. Introduction copyright 1986 by Leonard Peikoff. All rights reserved. For information address New American Library.

Acknowledgments

Excerpts from The Ominous Parallels, by Leonard Peikoff. Copyright 1982 by Leonard Peikoff. Reprinted with permission of Stein and Day Publishers. Excerpts from The Romantic Manifesto, by Ayn Rand. Copyright 1971, by The Objectivist. Reprinted with permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. Excerpts from Atlas Shrugged, copyright 1957 by Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, copyright 1943 by Ayn Rand, and For the New Intellectual, copyright 1961 by Ayn Rand. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Ayn Rand. Excerpts from Philosophy: Who Needs It, by Ayn Rand. Copyright 1982 by Leonard Peikoff, Executor, Estate of Ayn Rand. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Ayn Rand. Excerpts from The Philosophy of Objectivism lecture series. Copyright 1976 by Leonard Peikoff. Reprinted by permission. Excerpts from Alvin Tofflers interview with Ayn Rand, which first appeared in Playboy magazine. Copyright 1964. Reprinted by permission of Alvin Toffler. All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Used by arrangement with Plume, a member of Penguin Group (USA), Inc.