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From: csf@mtunb.ATT.COM ( )
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: programs in cognitive science
Summary: if it's called science, it isn't
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Date: 2 Aug 88 17:29:43 GMT
References: <GHH.88Jul16135559@confidence.princeton.edu> <536@buengc.BU.EDU> <582@sdics.ucsd.EDU>
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>In article <580@sdics.ucsd.EDU> D. Norman writes :
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>As the proud chair of the newly formed Department of Cognitive Science
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>at UCSD, John's cleverness deserves some response.

Ever notice how disciplines that have "science" in their names aren't? 
(Sciences, that is.)  To wit:

Political Science
Materials Science
Computer Science
Food Science
...

Will Cognitive Science be the exception?

C. Furchner
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C. Furchner
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