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From: sacks@classroom.ci.com (Marc Sacks)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: programs in cognitive science
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Date: 3 Aug 88 14:31:32 GMT
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In article <595@sdics.ucsd.EDU> norman@sdics.UUCP (Donald A. Norman - danorman@ucsd.edu (or .bitnet)) writes:
>
><<Ever notice how disciplines that have "science" in their names aren't? 
><<(Sciences,
>
>Ever get tired of hearing this old chestnut?  I do.  Especially as:
>     name)
>2. The statement simply reveals the person's ignorance of language:
>the "ology" of the names of many disciplines means "science. of"
>

Not exactly.  "[o]logy derives from Greek "logos"="word."
That is, for example, "biology," though generally translated "science of life"
is more accurately "words about life."

No shortage of words in any of the "sciences" or "ologies," real or pseudo

				--marc sacks