"entomology" = etymology or linguistics

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/7/2007 07:48 PM, you wrote:
>Both of these are common among the teeming masses, but here they are
>in the work of a prof:
>
>   1999 Tom Morris _Philosophy for Dummies_ (Foster City,
> Calif.:  IDG Books) 28: Why should a pre-med or business major
> waste any time at all in a philosophy classroom? Wasn't this rule
> much like requiring every student to take a course in Ancient
> Babylonian entomology? Wasn't it just some relic of the esoteric
> humanities curriculum of the past, no longer relevant to modern life?

Gee, I read it as "entombology".  And thought is was a clever pun by
the professor, that the typesetter's spell-checker had corrected.

Joel


>   _Ibid._ 51: Heresay is not enough, faith is not to be trusted,
> and intuition is not admissable at all. Hard evidence or nothing is the demand.
>
>   Dr. Morris, a Yale graduate, was Professor of Philosophy at the
> University of Notre Dame for 15 years.
>
>   JL
>
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