A Rand on Rand?
The 2008 update of The Philosophical Lexicon includes an entry inspired by Ayn Rand. Alas, one that isn’t very favorable to her polemical style (and to some degree her overall system of thought with its tendencies to over-psychologize things, I suppose):
rand, n. An angry tirade occasioned by mistaking philosophical disagreement for a personal attack and/or evidence of unspeakable moral corruption. “When I questioned his second premise, he flew into a rand.” Also, to attack or stigmatise through a rand. “When I defended socialised medicine, I was randed as a communist.”
(Via Leiter Reports.)
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