> Did you want to back this pronouncement up with something
> more than
> saying, ``No''?
How about the primary definitions given below, none of which babies engage in except the very last one?
> 1. a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of
> facts or
> truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of
> general
> laws: the mathematical sciences.
>
> 2. systematic knowledge of the physical or material world
> gained through
> observation and experimentation.
>
> 3. any of the branches of natural or physical science.
>
> 4. systematized knowledge in general.
>
> 5. knowledge, as of facts or principles; knowledge gained
> by systematic
> study.
>
> 6. a particular branch of knowledge.
>
> 7. skill, esp. reflecting a precise application of facts or
> principles;
> proficiency.
>
> Origin:
>