We can mean different things - an institution, a focus of study, a method etc. Just need to clarify which sense we're using it in.
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Replying to @JCMaas
I'm thinking mostly about focus of study. Looking at the way ppl think culturally & the way they think scientifically is very different.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @JCMaas
I'm certainly interested in cognitive mechanisms underlying it but I'm more interested in language & attitudes & ideology affecting culture.
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These can certainly be measured scientifically but this, to me,is less interesting than trying to understand how it all works in ppl's minds
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This is mostly about definitions, but I pers. don't see why that shouldn't be called science. If your ideas are falsifiable, it's science.
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Replying to @JCMaas
They're not falsifiable & making them so is not the point. One of my professors & her husband is making a database of phrases in manuscripts
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Replying to @HPluckrose @JCMaas
Then people will be able to search and find how commonly things were being talked about. Much more data at our fingertips.
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That's science. I'm more interested in pulling out attitudes and making convincing arguments about their influences & significance.
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eg The thesis I won an award for compared Aemilia Lanyer's model of feminine spiritual wisdom with that attributed to St Monica of Hippo.
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People were interested in the connections & similarities right down to the language. Did she base this on Monica or was it just in the air?
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Replying to @HPluckrose @JCMaas
I do not know but made some arguments that either or both are plausible. So, not very scientific but of interest to like-minded people.
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