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>From: brian@norton.com (Brian Yoder)
Subject: Re: MUST Philosopy be a Waste of Time?
Message-ID: <1992Feb05.220710.1324@norton.com>
Organization: Symantec / Peter Norton
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Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1992 22:07:10 GMT

mitchell@cs.uchicago.edu (Mitchell Marks) writes:
> 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?  

I have no problem with technical philosophy.  In fact I am specifically
interested in it.  My complaint was not that the discussion was "too technical"
or "theortical", but that it was useless (to which Mr. Cash answered in essence
"Of course it's useless, all philosophy is useless, and so are practical matters."

I have posed this problem of theory/practice dichotomy in terms of the A/S 
dichotomy already and I would like to discuss it in those terms (which will
shortly lead us to a discussion about the validity of the A/S dichtomy no doubt)
which I see as being both theoretical AND practical, and I agree would be
more appropriate to this groups's purpose.

--Brian


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