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Article 7622 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: shan@ee.ic.ac.uk (Shan Parfilt)
Subject: Re: RFD: sci.philosophy.language
Message-ID: <1992Nov12.163339.24178@cc.ic.ac.uk>
Keywords: RFD, philosophy of language, sci.philosophy.language
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>>The following is an OFFICIAL request for discussion to create a
>>newsgroup called sci.philosophy.language.  (At least in my mind) It
>>supersedes a previous post I made requesting the creation of
>>talk.philosophy.language.  It has been pointed out to me that a
>>designation of sci might be more appropriate.
>
>I'd like to see such a group also, but would also be interested in
>including discussions on psychological and computational aspects of
>language.  I realize that this all may be too much to have in one
>group.  Perhaps there could be a group such as: comp.ai.language or
>sci.cog.language etc.
>
>Either way, it would be nice to see some more psychology and AI in the
>philosophy of language.
>
I too would be interested in such a group, and am also particularly 
interested in 'psychological and computational aspects of language'.

S. Parfitt



