Re: hosers-talk: Majordomo --> Mailman?

[Josh <kortbein@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joel Uckelman sez:
>Quoth Jeff Schroeder:
>> Mm, no opinion yet.  Any good suggestions on a starting Philosophy 
>> book?  I've read some of the 'greats' with some difficulty, but no real 
>> relevations.
>> 
>> jeff
>
>Woah, that's a bit off-topic. I wanted to hear what people thought about 
>Mailman. :)
>
>Depends on which questions interest you. You can roughly characterize the 
>major areas in phil like so:
>
>1. What is there?
>2. How do we know?
>3. What should we do?
>4. Is it pleasing?
>5. Should this convince us?
>
>These questions correspond to metaphysics (yes, Josh, I realize the 
>question is more at ontology, so shut up), epistemology, ethics, 

But Joel...

ah, screw it.

(Actually... it would be better to say 1 is 'what is are the things that
are, like?')

>aesthetics, and logic. With so much stuff out there, it's hard for me to 
>make a recommendation without narrowing the scope some.

Ha, sure, try and searate 3 and 4.



Josh

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