It's funny because to me suffix - logy doesn't make me think science exactly but then again I'm Cypriot so I have interference, I guess. 
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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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because there's people out there who still teach Freud as if he's relevant. I think there's more nuance here. But I still think if somebody
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is self-hating in psychology and pretending not to be even though they work in a psych dept they should fuck off. I'm so bored of them.
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