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        Date: 2022-03-21 18:58:37+00:00
        From: Dr. Herbert Wender <drwender@aol.com>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 35.609: a bit of a challenge?

Two exchange tests -

medicine "reaches maturity only when it becomes aware of its own history"

philosophy "reaches maturity only when it becomes aware of its own history"

- suggest that 'discipline' here has a specific meaning, isn't it?

Herbert


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              Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 35, No. 609.
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        Date: 2022-03-21 06:15:30+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: disciplinary maturity

"It has often been said that a discipline reaches maturity only when it
becomes aware of its own history..."

  S. Bennett, A History of Control Engineering 1800-1930
  London: The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 1979.

Comments?

Yours,
WM
--
Willard McCarty,
Professor emeritus, King's College London;
Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews;  Humanist
www.mccarty.org.uk



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