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- From: epstein@cs.uiuc.edu (Milt Epstein)
- Subject: Re: RFD: sci.philosophy.language (REPOST)
- Message-ID: <BxvDLo.A0v@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Keywords: philosophy of language, new group, newgroup, POL
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- References: <1992Nov14.114224.2532@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:53:47 GMT
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- In <1992Nov14.114224.2532@samba.oit.unc.edu> Rick.Horowitz@launchpad.unc.edu (Rick Horowitz) writes:
-
- >Anyway, I want to respond to some of the discussion coming up about
- >my recommendation for a group called sci.philosophy.language.
- >
- >1) Some people have said things like: "I too would be interested
- > such a group. I'm particularly interested in 'psychological
- > and computational aspects of language'." What I don't
- > understand is: Why wouldn't these things belong under
- > sci.lang, comp.ai.philosophy, or even sci.philosophy.tech?
- > Certainly there might be ways of talking about these that
- > belong in sci.philosophy.language, but my reading of the
- > comments indicates to me that the way the post was intended,
- > it's something less philosophical that they were interested
- > in. (But maybe I'm wrong; I often am.)
-
- I've just noticed this thread, and I thought I'd add my $.02 in. And
- I'm going to echo the comments you're responding to here -- I'm one of
- those primarily interested in psychological and computational aspects
- of language. While it's arguable that these topics fall under those
- covered by the newsgroups you mention, there typically isn't much
- discussion of them there (in fact, one of your given reasons for
- wanting to have sci.phil.lang is to create a forum to discuss the
- types of issues you're interested in -- even though it could be argued
- that they also fit into the existing newsgroups).
-
- One possibility is a reorganization (or creation, rather) of a
- sci.lang.* hierarchy, something including things like:
-
- sci.lang.philosophy
- sci.lang.comp
- sci.lang.psychology (perhaps these latter two should be combined somehow)
- ...
-
- (I'm not really sure what the implications of having
- sci.lang.philosophy instead of sci.philosophy.lang are.)
-
- Now I realize that proposals to reorganize sci.lang have come up every
- now and then, and never get anywhere, so the same will probably happen
- to this one. Mainly my point is that consideration should be given to
- having a separate forum for psychological and computational apects of
- language (i.e. separate from what exists now, and separate from the
- proposed POL group).
-
- --
- Milt Epstein
- Department of Computer Science
- University of Illinois
- epstein@cs.uiuc.edu
-