For the curious, searching for `"whewell" "coleridge" "scientist"` does give a few results about the 1833 Coleridge exchange that user disown is referring to. (

For the curious, searching for `"whewell" "coleridge" "scientist"` does give a few results about the 1833 Coleridge exchange that user disown is referring to. (Though many of them source it to Snyder's 2011 book so they're not independent.) Even the 1834 article we're all talking about says: >Philosophers was felt to be too wide and too lofty a term, and was very properly forbidden them by Mr. Coleridge [..] ... which he presumably wrote specifically as a reference to that 1833 exchange. This article is anonymous, but see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24864582 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24864582 for why it's attributed to Whewell. So it's quite possible that he first spoke the word in the 1833 exchange with Coleridge, and first put it to paper in the 1834 review of Somerville's book. Edit: See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24864563 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24864563 which has a link to the 1833 meeting's report, which does not appear to mention Coleridge or this exchange.