[Corpora-List] Do you think LINGUISTICS is SCIENCE or ARTS?

[Anabela Barreiro]

> 
> > Linguistics IS SCIENCE OR ART, because Linguistics IS SCIENCE AND ART.
> And business, and.....


As any other SCIENCE and/or ART :)


> 
> Rainer
> 
> 
> On 24 March 2010 09:19, Gilles Serasset <Gilles.Serasset at imag.fr> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > What I meant in my earlier answer is that the classical question "SCIENCE OR
> > ART" is most of the time asked only for political reasons and that it is
> > indeed non relevant in general.
> >
> > Physics, for instance, is always mentionned as the example of what one may
> > call REAL science.
> >
> > And it is indeed science when one systematically uses a theory to predict
> > some behaviours that are to be validated by observation. This aspect has
> > been clearly stated by P. Fung.
> >
> > But what about the way a theory is conceived ? Do you really think that the
> > theory of relativity was the result of a "systematic pursuit of knowledge" ?
> > I do believe that most of this work relies on the pursuit of an "aesthetic"
> > result that would reconcile the theory and the "annoying facts".
> >
> > In this regard, there is ART and SCIENCE in physics.
> >
> > The same kind of observation holds even in mathematics when the hypotheses
> > (a "beautifully" reduced set of assumption) that are admitted by a community
> > are destroyed by the discovery of a new paradox. The hypothesis are a
> > product of ART, there failure is a product of SCIENCE.
> >
> > And I do believe that there is no way it could be another way, because even
> > scientists are human and whichever definition you give to "humanity" it will
> > not only involve the concepts of 'rigor', 'honesty', 'systematicity', ...
> >
> > I think that whatever the way you do linguistics (by introspection or with a
> > computing device or whatever), the theories, rules and principle you "see"
> > in your work are the result of an artistic process. And there will be many
> > other linguists that will then argue on your production and try to
> > invalidate them systematically (and this is science).
> >
> > Hence an irrelevant (but logically deduced from the above unscientific
> > assumptions) answer to the original question:
> >
> > Linguistics IS SCIENCE OR ART, because Linguistics IS SCIENCE AND ART.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Gilles,
> > --
> > Gilles Sérasset
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