Gaia?

[Fred Shapiro]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, GLL wrote:

> Would there be an ecological (i.e, factual) usage which would be separate from
> its current mythological (or spiritual) usage?

I'm not sure what you're getting at, but I was referring to the current
scientific usage ("Gaia hypothesis," etc.).  Is your point that Lovelock's
coinage is nonfactual?

Fred


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