terminology!

ravi gadfly at exitleft.org
Wed Apr 17 07:07:33 PDT 2002


Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>>of course i often wish you folks would stop saying IP for intellectual
>>property! IP is the internet protocol! ;-)
>
> I never did it before I started reading posts on pen-l. Blame Michael
> Perelman.
>

yeah these economists! next he is going to insist CPI is not clock per instruction!


> And another example. In a discussion of the Kansas School Board on this
> list a year or so ago, someone (a) protested accepting the "authority"
> of biologists on the fact of evolution and (b) argued that (in junior
> high and high schools yet) they should teach "scientific method."
> Perhaps Justin could indicate briefly how complex is the problem of
> saying what the "scientific method" is. Imagine someone thinking that
> teaching the fact of evolution was authoritarian, while teaching a
> 10th-grade version of "scientific method" as The Truth was .... what?

that is a confusing position indeed!

--ravi



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