Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!usfvax2!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Arguments for SCI.philosophy.objectivism Message-ID: <1990Feb5.135447.5447@tct.uucp> Date: 5 Feb 90 13:54:47 GMT References: <7444@tank.uchicago.edu> Organization: ComDev/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 15 According to rwt1@tank.uchicago.edu (Robert Tracinski): >The argument is over 3 questions. > 1) Is philosophy a science? > 2) Is Objectivism a philosophy? > 3) Does philosophy belong in the sci hierarchy? Actually, there is a fourth: 4) Do controversial topics that tend to generate more heat than light belong in talk? This fourth question is the only one I feel confident in answering: "Yes." -- Chip Salzenberg at ComDev/TCT , "The Usenet, in a very real sense, does not exist."