From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Tue Oct 19 02:43:56 1993 Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Tue, 19 Oct 1993 06:45:50 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Tue, 19 Oct 1993 06:45:46 -0400 Message-Id: <199310191045.AA01098@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 5888; Tue, 19 Oct 93 06:43:48 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 9610; Tue, 19 Oct 93 06:46:43 EDT Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 06:43:56 -0400 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: TECH: "philosophy" (was: toldi nunsenva) X-Cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Erik Rauch Status: RO X-Status: I've run across this before, in another forum (can't remmeber which one) There are two definitions of science that I have seen used by intellectuals. The one used by scientists usually relies on concepts like the scientific method, description, experimentation, etc. Another definition, used by "non-scientists", and especially those in the humanities and sometimes the social sciences, is harder to define, but ot seems to mean a large systematized body of knowledge or field of study. i.e. it translates into what we might call an -ology. It is not clear to me that at least some portion of philosophy (sorry, no part of philosophy) exists which qualifies as an -ology. (I vaguely recall -ology has something to do with Greek "logos", which may or may not help my definitional efforts). lojbab