11-06-2007, 07:55 PM
"Science" comes from "scientia". So it is just a question of definition of a term, in the end. Maybe more people should read von Ranke.
Caius, I just love that.
Caius, I just love that.
Quote:So historians of Ancient History are parasites living off the research of scientists!No. Many of the modern sciences in fact derive from historic sciences. They just pay the tenth for what was given to them. Take sociology as an example. Apart from that: With your argumentation: Is Archaeology a science? Linguistics? Ethnology?
Christian K.
No reconstruendum => No reconstruction.
Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.
No reconstruendum => No reconstruction.
Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.