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From: bfu@ifi.uio.no (Thomas Gramstad)
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Subject: Re: new news top level proposed (was Re: sci.philosophy.objectivism)
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Date: 19 Jan 90 15:36:20 GMT
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>"philosophy.objectivism" (a novelist trying to create a coherent
>philosophy is like an actor trying to be a president)

"If all philosophers were required to present their ideas in novels,
to dramatize the exact meaning and consequences of their philosophies
in human life, there would be far fewer philosophers -- and far better
ones."
              -- Ayn Rand


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Thomas Gramstad                                      bfu@ifi.uio.no
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