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From: laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton)
Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech
Subject: Re: Science and Aesthetics
Message-ID: <2715@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 18:03:35 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 12 18:03:35 1987
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Reply-To: laura@polliwog.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Keywords: elegance beauty truth

In article <8727@ut-sally.UUCP> turpin@ut-sally.UUCP (Russell Turpin) writes:
>Ockham's razor is a demand for parsimony of assumptions. Whether
>or not one finds it compelling is a philosophic debate over which
>much paper has been dirtied (and bits flipped.) But it is a
>philosophic, as opposed to aesthetic, principle.

How do you define philosophic?  In my neck of the woods, aesthetics is
philosophy.  Do you mean epistemologic?
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