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Then you are not aware of very many other fields.

• tjr 12y ago
  Please feel free to enlighten me! I would genuinely be interested in seeing how we software developers are not alone in this manner.
  • pdabbadabba 12y ago
    Well, somewhat notoriously, there has been a rolling debate for better than a century now over whether "higher" sciences simply are complex subdiciplines of "lower" sciences. E.g., are all biologists ultimately just physicists? How about psychologists? Economists? The proper meaning of "are" itself in that sentence also, rightly, is the subject of significant dispute. But the analogy isn't the best since I think that philosophers enjoy that question a lot more than actual scientists. A more interesting example may be law and economics. There has been a concerted movement by certain economists/legal theorists to show either that law is simply applied (or misapplied) economics, or that it should be. (Here's a taste: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/cooterr/PDFpapers/stratcon.PDF http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/cooterr/PDFpapers/stratc...) Again, though, the analogy is imperfect. I don't think that many would claim that law "is" economics, but rather that legal rules are or should be explicable in strictly economic terms. Though maybe this would satisfy some definitions of "is."
  • myg204 12y ago
    Is fashion art or not is a common minor debate in this field. Others I've heard: is physics math? Is math physics?