Metaphysical axioms are philosophical truths implicit in anything anyone says or does. That is, things do in fact exist. A. A thing is itself. This is a corollary of the first axiom. This axiom implies that everything has a specific nature and that everything acts in accordance with its nature.
Man posses consciousness, which is the faculty of perceiving that which exists.
This is also a corollary of the first axiom. The second branch of Objectivist philosophy is epistemology . The Objectivist epistemology says that reason is the method of man's consciousness. Reason is the process of forming and using concepts. A human consciousness forms a concept by observing a number of similar concretes and mentally integrating them into one idea.