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From: mehuld@APEE.OGI.EDU (Mehul Dave)
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Subject: Re: sci.philosophy.objectivism
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Date: 24 Jan 90 23:01:07 GMT
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In article <899@athen.sinix.UUCP> es@sinix.UUCP (Dr. Sanio) writes

>On the other hand, I don't blame anybody insisting in that sytematic 
>distinction (unless she/he explicitly expresses that) to regard philosophy, 
>social sciences or other fields of human thought as non-serious or irrelevant.
>On the Usenet itself, I regret that there is no hierarchy which reflects those
>parts of academic thought and research. Simply putting those topics under soc,
>alt or talk seems a poor solution to me, too.

Agreed.  That's not a good solution.

>Anyway, anything different would require a very deep revision of the structure
>of the news system. Maybe this wouldn't be such a bad idea.
>Any  comments?

As you say, this would require a very deep revision of structure of the
news system.  Besides, some of the social sciences such as psychology,
economics, education etc. have been already placed in the "sci"
hierarchy so sci is not fully restricted only to the physical sciences.
It, therefore, seems proper to include philosophy also under the
sci hierarchy.  I also think that if there is sufficient interest in
other philosophies such as, positivism for example, a newsgroup such
as sci.philosophy.positivism would be proper (if it was intended for a
technical discussion of positivism).

>regards, es				(sanio@netmbx.uucp  es@athen.uucp)

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