'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 didn't 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 i'm quite aware of her ideas making assumptions without checking on premises is what landed rand's page in this editing nightmare also rand didn't 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