Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!nuug!ifi!bfu From: bfu@ifi.uio.no (Thomas Gramstad) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: *.philosophy.objectivism Message-ID: Date: 5 Feb 90 18:55:01 GMT References: <11909@goofy.megatest.UUCP> Sender: bfu@ifi.uio.no Reply-To: Thomas Gramstad Lines: 32 >From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) >Date: 2 Feb 90 04:19:19 GMT >I would like to have talk.philosophy.objectivism, because as an ex- >Objectivist, I would welcome the opportunity to air out the reasons why >I abandoned it. Perhaps I might use the exercise of posting to that >forum to clarify my own views. Perhaps I might even shed some light on >the subject for others. In any case, I think it would be fun to talk it out. I would be very interested to learn your views and experiences, and discuss them; comparing this with those of my own would either provide me with an example of things I already know -- or clarify issues which I may be somewhat unfamilar with -- or even learn me something entirely new e g if I hold a wrong view on some issue. If you will permit me to say so, no flame intended, I have the impression from your later message in this thread that you may blaim Objectivism for issues which would rather seem to be related to previous idiosyncracies of yourself. >I would not like to have sci.philosophy.objectivism because Objectivism >is not science or anything like it. ... >Philosophy and science, once synonymous, parted ways long ago, with the >advent of the scientific method. How does one conduct a repeatable philosophy >experiment? How do you make a falsifiable philosophical prediction? I disagree with this; see my previous message (subj: reorganization) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Gramstad bfu@ifi.uio.no -------------------------------------------------------------------