[news.groups] Is soc.objectivism an acceptable compromise?

gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith) (01/26/90)

In article <6575@yunexus.UUCP>, gall@yunexus (Norm Gall) writes:

>There is nothing _scientific_ about Objectivism... it is
>philosophy.

>There might be an argument for creating a new top-level, 'phil',
>and I stress might since I cannot see one, but Objectivism would
>hardly even belong there given the content and method of inquiry.

  I was suggesting 'hum' for the humanities, but so far the
response has been ho-hum. Since *.philosophy.misc is in talk, it
would be logical to put *.philosophy.objectivism there. The
difficulty with this is that Stubblefield would probably ignore
it. One the other hand, it clearly does not belong in sci.

  A compromise between Stubblefield's proposal and Bill Wells'
proposal would be a (hopefully unmoderated) group,
soc.objectivism. Since Objectivism has some of the
characteristics of groups now in soc, this seems to me to be
reasonable.
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