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From: gwyn@brl-vgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
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Subject: Re: But why?  beCAUSE
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Date: Wed, 2-May-84 05:35:08 EDT
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I enjoyed your postings from the bus station.  You have made it quite clear
why philosophers have been so ignored by practicing physicists.  However, it
is not possible to work in science (or in life in general) without being
guided by philosophical principles; if they are not deliberately chosen
then they will very likely default to the prevailing cultural attitudes.
I think some of the craziness in today's accepted science can be so explained.

A better analysis of this than I am capable of appears in Ayn Rand's
"Philosophy: Who Needs It".  (Is this yet another besotted philosopher or
does this one know what she's talking about?  You decide.)