On Nov 15, 2008, at 12:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>
> In a message dated 11/14/2008 9:36:04 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> Pure  philosophy would have
> been published through the existing academic  discipline of  
> philosophy,
> in any of the journals or scholarly  presses that exist, not in self-
> published newsletters that are later  compiled and published via the
> same press as her  novels.>>
>
>
>
> -----------------
> Are you suggesting that a philosopher may not self-publish?
> I would think that anyone can self-publish.  And the category and   
> subject of
> their work can be anything.

I'm saying that there is a difference between a philosopher and a  
loony who self-publishes a philosophical newsletter, and that Ayn Rand  
does not come down on the side of that divide that many of her  
followers would like to think she does.

-Phil

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