Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!jeffd From: jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: new news top level proposed (was Re: sci.philosophy.objectivism) Summary: One man's blather.... Keywords: Objectivism, Rand, newsgroup, philosophy Message-ID: Date: 17 Jan 90 15:50:19 GMT References: <9001162348.AA11695@apee.ogi.edu> <12987@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <10463@saturn.ADS.COM> Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation Lines: 22 In article <10463@saturn.ADS.COM>, xanthian@saturn.ADS.COM (Metafont Consultant Account) writes: > > I hereby propose new top level "blather", What's blather to a pseudosophisticate may be talk to someone else. > "philosophy.objectivism" (a novelist trying to create a coherent > philosophy is like an actor trying to be a president) will be a perfect > fit. You have it backward. She was a philosopher using fiction to present her philosophy -- just as Jules Verne used fiction to present science. Jeff -- If a hungry man has water, and a thirsty man has bread, Then if they trade, be not dismayed, they both come out ahead. -- Don Paarlberg