On The Authors in the History of Thought: There is a very great difference betwe

On The Authors in the History of Thought:
There is a very great difference between
1) being wrong and harmful
2) being wrong but not harmful
3) being directionally correct despite being wrong
4) being directionally correct and getting something mostly right
5) being directionally correct, getting a couple of things mostly right, and the rest, while not right, being at least understandable attempts given experience, time and place.
6) being directionally correct getting quite a bit right, but being incomplete – and the incompleteness itself is a bigger problem then being wrong.
7) being directionally correct, getting most things right but lacking the information to get the rest right despite its existence.
8) being directionally correct, getting most things right but lacking the information to get the rest right because it doesn’t yet exist.
Rand falls into category 6.
We can put most philosophers into these categories.

Cheers
CD