[Inquiry] Re: subscribe inquiry@stderr.org

[Jon Awbrey]

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Tom Koelman wrote:
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> The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
> that has been posted to gmane.discuss.subscribe as well.
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> jawbrey at oakland.edu writes:
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> > #gmane.comp.inquiry   inquiry at stderr.org
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> > Collab devoted to theory, practice, computational facilitation of inquiry.
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> > mailman dummy
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> > URL: http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/inquiry
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> Is this group maybe better put in gmane.comp.science.* or gmane.science.*?
> Just a thought.
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> Tom

hi tom,

yes, the term "inquiry" is well enough taken as a synonym for "scientific method",
but it helps to use the fuzzier word so as to include the consideration of things
like everyday reasoning, ethical/moral inquiry, aesthetic inquiry, ..., that is,
any area where one may have questions and need a way of addressing them.  also,
the term "method" will sometimes inflame anarchists of the feyerabend brand to
question whether there really is, can be, ought to be such a method, and that
question is legitimate, too, falling under the head of "inquiry into inquiry".
this particular collab will maintain a focus on computable models of inquiry
and software tools for supporting it, so it is good to keep the "comp" in.

i thought of upping it to "gmane.inquiry",
but then i thought that people might read
that as a faq space.  what do you think?

jon

PS.  I did not find "gmane.discuss.subscribe".  Is that a new one?

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