Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Tue, 19 Oct 1993 15:07:02 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Tue, 19 Oct 1993 15:06:48 -0400 Message-Id: <199310191906.AA04498@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8157; Tue, 19 Oct 93 15:04:49 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 5089; Tue, 19 Oct 93 15:07:45 EDT Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 15:04:50 -0400 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: TECH: "philosophy" (was: toldi nunsenva) X-To: protin@usl.com X-Cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Erik Rauch Status: RO X-Status: X-From-Space-Date: Tue Oct 19 11:04:50 1993 X-From-Space-Address: @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET My dictionary lists two meanings of methodology. The first seems to be the meaning you prefer. The second, which is the one that is in my personal idiom, and is also the sense I here used more often, is that of a "system of methods", which is something rather more than merely "methods" in that it presumes that the methods being used are not haphazard, but are instead tied to each other in some rigorous manner. I cannot apologize for the polysemy of the English language, and I tend to consider claims of word "abuse" to be a failure to recognize that words in English are both polysemous, and that their meanings evolve with time, in such a manner that getting upset over that evolution is both a waste of time and an unecessary source of stress. We can hope Lojban will be more stable, but this will be a matter of degree in even a planned language. lojbab