Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!whuts!spf
From: spf@whuts.UUCP (Steve Frysinger of Blue Feather Farm)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: "Science" in cognitive science
Message-ID: <4660@whuts.UUCP>
Date: 15 Aug 88 18:04:14 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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> A second set of questions include: what was intended to be conveyed to the 
> users/hearers of the terms when they were coined; why were those 
> particular terms coined; what does it tell use about the coiners; what does
> it tell us about their views/expectations of the audience/hearers.

Personally, I've always been rather sad that we couldn't still be
called "Natural Philosophers", as was the case up through the 18th
century.  To my ears, it expresses the aspect of "science" that first
drew me into it and that keeps me at it.  It's been a few years since
the work I was paid for qualified as "science", so it sure isn't the
money that keeps me doing it on my own time!

Steve Frysinger