Linguistics isn't only about natural languages... Regards; Fynn. -- "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day"
"When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist." _ Dom Helder Camara 2010/11/28 nominal9 <nomin...@yahoo.com>: > PS... Einseele... if he's still around, should get involved in this > discussion....he likes Linguistics.. and math... and computer > languages sorts of matters..... > My own opinion is that Linguistics is a very Soft Science... that will > never amount to very much... at best it can aspire to be to is to be > "encyclopedic" and catalogue all "words" or other languages > constructions... just as a sort of "zoological" excercise... and note > what new "species or genera" are "born" and which old ones become > extinct...... > > On Nov 28, 3:33 pm, nominal9 <nomin...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> But, in Linguistics, empirical validation, including experimentation,> is >> more easily done than in sociology or psychiatry/ >> >> You think so?... clearly..... >> Can you explain how easier and why?... I mean, apart from the >> "seeming" false validation (experimental or otherwise provided by >> such >> things" (human constructs, really) such "grammar rules" accepted >> definitions and the like.... language as a means of shared >> communication requiring a basic imposed uniforminty for the sake of >> mutual "human" understanding, sort of thing..... >> As another consideration.... how do you account for other shared >> imposed orderings... like Mathematics.... Musical notation..... >> Computer languages....etc. Are they "Hard Science or Soft Science.... >> Mathematics seems to be a confusing case... but only because it is >> used to account for "Hard Science" sorts of "things"? >> nominal9 >> >> On Nov 27, 5:17 pm, aruzinsky <aruzin...@general-cathexis.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> > 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 -- 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. > > -- 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.
