But, in Linguistics, empirical validation, including experimentation, is more easily done than in sociology or psychiatry.
On Nov 27, 11:20 am, nominal9 <nomin...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hard Science... Soft Science.... > Physics... Sociology > Biology... Psychology > anything... "Human"- or behavioral based (or other such areas... > pretty much Soft Science, I think......... > Cause and effect.... action and reaction > nominal9 > > On Nov 24, 12:34 pm, aruzinsky <aruzin...@general-cathexis.com> wrote: > > > > > Correction: > > > Replace "experimentation" with "empirical validation." > > Experimentation is not always necessary for science (My bad.). > > > On Nov 23, 4:40 pm, aruzinsky <aruzin...@general-cathexis.com> wrote: > > > > According tohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics, linguistics is > > > a science. According > > > tohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science#Scientific_method, > > > science requires experimentation. For your entertainment, what's > > > wrong with these papers about bare plurals?: > > > >http://people.umass.edu/partee/docs/Dependent_Plurals_Partee.pdfhttp:...... > > > > The authors of these papers do not report any experimentation, > > > therefore, these studies are not science. > > > > I found only one paper with an experiment: > > > >http://mercury.hau.ac.kr/kggc/Publications/SIGG/SIGG12/SIGG12201_HKKa... > > > > but it is flawed in some other ways.- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to epistemol...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to epistemology+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en.
