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Subject: Re: Metaphysicians
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Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 15:45:55 EST
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>> Maybe if we called it "plasma field" research instead of "metaphysics",
>> some serious research would be acceptable.

> GO AWAY!  FIND ANOTHER WORD!  LIFE IS HARD ENOUGH FOR METAPHYSICIANS
> AS IT IS!!!

Yes, I *have* heard that it's very rare for a meta to become ill.

[   Ooh, ouch, ouch, I didn't mean it!  Honest, I'll go quietly!
    I know she's heard it a hundred times, but I couldn't help myself,
    officer... (gosh those nightsticks are *hard*, and the net.police
    are so *vicious*)    ]

On a more serious note, calling "parapsychology" "metaphysics" is almost
as silly as calling "physics" "epistemology".  They may have some areas
of overlap.... but not much.  I'm moderately surprised that RAH did
this.  Can anyone tell me where?  And was it he himself or a character
in a work of his fiction that made the mistake?

> Laura Creighton  hoptoad!laura  toad@lll-crg.arpa
-- 
Wayne Throop at Data General, RTP, NC
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