Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: new news top level proposed (was Re: sci.philosophy.objectivism) Keywords: Objectivism, Rand, newsgroup, philosophy Message-ID: <2M41O75xds13@ficc.uu.net> Date: 17 Jan 90 17:23:12 GMT References: <9001162348.AA11695@apee.ogi.edu> <12987@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <10463@saturn.ADS.COM> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 11 > You have it backward. She was a philosopher using fiction to present > her philosophy -- just as Jules Verne used fiction to present > science. Even when Verne was writing his books, the science in them was known to contain huge amounts of dubious or just plain erronious information. Verne was a writer of adventure fiction with a sprinkling of good science and a lot of handwaving. If Ayn Rand's work is indeed of this quality, I really doubt this group has a place in 'sci'. What's wrong with putting it in 'misc'? Or even 'talk'? -- _--_|\ Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . / \ \_.--._/ Xenix Support -- it's not just a job, it's an adventure! v "Have you hugged your wolf today?" `-_-'