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As Claudia called out - scale, memory, and information are all technical terms in our context but have layman meanings in the language too. Is that not the sam
by deanCommie 6y ago
As Claudia called out - scale, memory, and information are all technical terms in our context but have layman meanings in the language too.
Is that not the same as justice, racism, and privilege in humanities?
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoIt is, except that a hardware and a software person both expect them to have technical meanings. That is, hardware and software people have enough in common that they can (usually, perhaps not always) tell when a term is being used in a technical way. And the same may be true in the humanities. A philosophy person and a sociologist, say, may have enough in common to be able to detect when the other is using a term technically, even if they don't know the exact definition. The problem comes when talking to laypeople, both for the humanities and the technical people. (And the technical people are laypeople to those in the humanities, and vice versa.)