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From: karl@plato.simons-rock.edu (Karl A. Krueger)
Subject: Re: See me, feel me, screw you.
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Organization: Disorganization
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Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 21:00:09 GMT
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In article <Pine.A32.3.91.950513055738.22130A-100000@red.weeg.uiowa.edu>,
Brian J Flanagan  <bflanagn@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> wrote:
>Touch this. What in God's name does the following have to do with 
>alt.consciousness or comp.ai.philosophy? Or rec.humor? Or alt.homosexual? 
>Or alt.atheism.satire?
>
>> It's a "magnet" because our word "magnet" describes accurately what it does. 
>> If our symbologies do not have a good correspondence with reality -- that
>> is, if our operating definitions are merely superstition -- then we might as
>> well give up the science game.
>> 
>> Science is trying to understand what happens.  Philosophy is about why it
>> happens, and theology is about who made it happen.  Geography is about where
>> it happened, and politics is about who did what to whom and why.

alt.consciousness -- well, it's about the way we think.
comp.ai.philosophy -- ditto.
rec.humor -- well, I thought the politics but was sorta funny :-)
alt.homosexual -- the message is coming out of the closet?
alt.atheism.satire -- well, hmmpf.  "God God God, yadda yadda yadda."

Actually, the REAL reason is because I didn't check newsgroups.  Should
have.  (bat self on nose)  The Permanent Floating Flamewar Mark II is a
menace.
