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From: meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal)
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Subject: Re: SCI.PHILOSOPHY.OBJECTIVISM.astrology
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Date: 5 Feb 90 17:56:38 GMT
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In article <1990Feb2.191043.7706@everexn.uucp> karen@everexn.uucp (Karen Valentino) writes:
|ka@cs.washington.edu (Kenneth Almquist) writes:
|
|>Astrology is based upon observations, but it is not a science.  What
|>distinguishes natural philosophy (science) is that it has generally
|>accepted methods for going from observations to theories.  
|
|Webster's disagrees with you.  Science is defined in the dictionary
|more broadly than you define it, and only includes the natural sciences 
|as one of its definitions.  Astrology, which is an area of systematized
|knowledge, *is* a science.  But that does not automatically give 
|astrology, or Objectivism, entree into the sci hierarchy.

It's more of a collection of observations, many unrepeatable and unverifiable.
At least within the immediate future. To date, it's a great deal of
conjecture.

-Miles