assumably etc. (was Re: "last stitch effort")

[James Smith]

Guess "out of nowhere" should have been in scare
quotes.

--- Alice Faber <faber at HASKINS.YALE.EDU> wrote:

> James Smith said:
> >Where is this list?
> >
> >The first word I noticed coming out of nowhere into
> >widespread use was "paradigm" in the 70's.  Of
> course
> >it could have been in widespread use before I
> noticed
> >it.  Usage seems to have dropped off.
>
> "Paradigm" didn't come from nowhere in the 70s. It
> came from Thomas
> Kuhn's _Structure of Scientific Revolutions_, with
> its lengthy
> discussions of "paradigm shifts" in science.
> --
>
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James D. SMITH                 |If history teaches anything
South SLC, UT                  |it is that we will be sued
jsmithjamessmith at yahoo.com     |whether we act quickly and decisively
                               |or slowly and cautiously.



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