People in psychology who don't like the word psychology should fuck off. 
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Philology for ex isn't a science, just an area of study. But like I said I agree with most of your conclusion just not some of the basis.
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Neither is astrology nor is numerology. Not all that ends in -logy is a science. Logy just means area of study.
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I think you're right - science is a pretty recent way of thinking about how we study or know about things.
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It's being going downhill ever since we stopped doing natural philosophy :)
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Philosophy, to me, because I speak Greek (not Ancient) means somebody who deals w knowledge while philology somebody who deals w language.
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The etymology really is irrelevant as the lexical elements don't always add up in meaningful ways. Paradigm in English means a way of doing
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or thinking, in Greek it literally means example. Ex sample. Just like example from Latin in English.
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The only difference is that in Greek every word can be easily etymologically inspected. In fact on hearing a novel word, you can guess the
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meaning. This is not the case in English. This is why I strongly disagree with your appeal to sublexical elements. It's not how English
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works. "bad" used to mean effeminate. "nice" used to mean silly. It's not relevant really. Psychological science might be needed exactly
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