Reply Re We are not amused  If the individual does not decide arbitrate what is presented by existence existing who will  A corollary of existence existing is that each existing informed mind must think for itself  So perhaps you thought I meant that the individual is the final creator of reality  This is not so  Regardless of how fleshed out your criteria becomes criterion by criterion I must still have to agree with the content of this organizations decisions on who Rand is and what she left to posterity  If I didnt do so acting as the final arbitrator of my existence or my interaction within reality who will  Existence and existents hold the validity or lack thereof of my perceptions my concepts my decisions consequences of my ethics etc  Not Wikipedia  Certainly not you who thinks such a thought nonsense  And I have all her texts Im quite aware of her ideas Making assumptions without checking on premises is what landed Rands page in this editing nightmare  Also Rand didnt form the thought Existence exists existence qua existence or A is A Aristotle did  She resurrected the import of the phrase and logically extended the consequences  Its been fun  RJM