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>From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
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Subject: Re: MUST Philosopy be a Waste of Time?
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Date: 6 Feb 92 19:59:34 GMT
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In article <1992Feb06.002746.16389@convex.com> cash@convex.com (Peter
Cash) writes:

[More or less reasonable things.]

>In article <1992Feb05.011716.8427@norton.com> brian@norton.com (Brian
Yoder) writes:

[Many Rand-like points.]

I would like to reduce my waste of time by getting people to separate
their comp.ai.phil and sci.phil.tech discussions.  I don't think this
one belongs in comp.ai.phil.

Of course, philosophy is often a waste of time, because there's
no way to convince anyone that works as well as experiements do for
science.  For instance, Brian Yoder seems to be convinced that
philosophy determines politics, so that if we pay too much attention
to the wrong philosophers we become totalitarians, or something.  
It ought to be refute this empirically, but I bet it wont't work.


