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The author doesn’t have a good grasp of Latin. The word medicina isn’t only about treatment of disease. It can also refer to things done to maintain health. It
by cratermoon 7mo ago
The author doesn’t have a good grasp of Latin. The word medicina isn’t only about treatment of disease. It can also refer to things done to maintain health. It can also refer to the health care profession generally.
To the extent the author’s point relies on the incorrect definition, it cannot be consistent or correct.
- JadeNB 7mo ago> To the extent the author’s point relies on the incorrect definition, it cannot be consistent or correct. I don't think that a point based on an incorrect definition is automatically inconsistent or itself incorrect. It might be, of course, or it might just be insufficiently justified. And, to the extent that it is a philosophical point rather than a historical one, the truth or falsity of a philosophical claim doesn't depend on whether someone actually said it, or it is a mistranslation of something someone actually said.
- foltik 7mo agoThe author’s point does not rely on that definition.
- cratermoon 7mo agoThen why put it in the article, much less lead with it?
- foltik 7mo agoWhy hyper fixate on it?