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>From: mitchell@cs.uchicago.edu (Mitchell Marks)
Subject: Re: MUST Philosopy be a Waste of Time?
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Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1992 13:07:45 GMT

Brian,
       Would it help at all to point out that there are several
different philosophy newsgroups?  In sci.philosophy.tech you would
pretty much *expect* to find discussions oriented to "technical
philosophy", no?  Since you find other kinds of topics more
interesting / significant / urgent, you might want to check out the
"misc" and "meta" philosophy groups.  You might not be interested in
what you find already posted there either, but you could reasonably
hope to post there and start discussions of your broader philosophical
concerns. (Instead of chiding sci.philosophy.tech for "failing" to be
other than what it was set up to be.)

And in fact it strikes me that s.p.t and comp.ai.phil have been
particularly good-natured about "Meaning of Life" and similar threads.
Nobody in these groups stomped on the posters or tried to stifle those
threads -- because the folks who started them didn't come in waving an
attitude of "You should be discussing these Big Questions *instead* of
your narrow, petty word games."  They posted their Big Questions, sans
attitude, and received a few interested, sympathetic replies.

Regards,


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Mitch Marks    mitchell@cs.UChicago.EDU
It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.


