When an idea is lost, then new words would be invented.
=. Book: This will make you smarter. Part: Cultural attractors. Page 180. By Dan Sperber *In 1967, Richard Dawkins introduced the idea of a meme . . . . . "Meme" has become a remarkably successful addition to everybody's cognitive toolkit. . . . Not only do "memeticists" have many quite different definitions of "meme", but also, and more important, most users of the term have no clear idea of what a meme might be. The term is used with a vague meaning, relevant in the circumstances. ( . . . , we produce a new token of the same type without reproducing in the usual sense of copying some previous token)* Page 182. By Dan Sperber. ==.. In physics was produced many words with a very vague meaning: inertia, entropy, ideal gas, antimatter, dark matter, dark energy, quarks, virtual particles, . . . . So, why we are complaining about the great difficulty in understanding the reality? ===… -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to epistemology+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to epistemology@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
