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That's a tired argument. Those subjects are called the way they are, because they were named in a culture that preferred plain straightforward names. Computer s
by jltsiren 4y ago
That's a tired argument. Those subjects are called the way they are, because they were named in a culture that preferred plain straightforward names. Computer science could have been computing, informatics, or datalogy. Political science could have been politology. Sociology is already a thing, but it's narrower in scope than social science.
Incidentally, I'm writing this in a place called "Physical Sciences Building".
- spullara 4y agoThey are named that way to give them some kind of authority when they aren't actually science (i.e. those things studied using the scientific method). You are being way too charitable.