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From: ka@cs.washington.edu (Kenneth Almquist)
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Subject: Re: A Hum Domain
Summary: how about HSS
Message-ID: <10692@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 90 02:17:37 GMT
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karen@everexn.uucp (Karen Valentino) writes:
}>In article <SFK18C7xds13@ficc.uu.net}, peter@ficc (Peter da Silva) writes:
}>>How about "arts" as in "arts and humanities" or "arts and letters"?
}>>It's broad, appropriate, and aesthetically lightyears ahead.
}
}			    It seems to me that the human sciences
} are both art *and* science.  If you call the domain *arts*, then
} many of the human sciences--like anthropology, say--are not
} well-represented by the name.  "Humanities," on the other hand,
} speaks to the dual nature of these sciences.
} 
} I agree, though, that the abbreviation "hum" is darned unfortunate.
} (Makes me think of the Giants--"Humm, baby!")

Subjects like anthropology are usually referred to as social sciences
rather than as humanities.  So how about "hss", short for "humanities
and social sciences"?
				Kenneth Almquist

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