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From: bfu@ifi.uio.no (Thomas Gramstad)
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Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: talk.philosophy.objectivism
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Date: 17 Jan 90 17:13:47 GMT
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>From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
>Date: 16 Jan 90 15:28:55 GMT

>Rand's work has never been philosophy, despite the claims of a few
>people who don't read philosophy.  It has always been political in
>nature.

The Ayn Rand Society, an organization for professional philosophers
who are objectivists, is member of the American Philosophical Association.

I am sure that APA would be interested in the information you apparently
have, which they seem to have missed, as to why objectivism is not a
philosophy.

On second thought, maybe not.



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Thomas Gramstad                                      bfu@ifi.uio.no
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