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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 15:19:12 +0100, nospam@de-ster.demon.nlLodder)   
   wrote:   
      
   >Dutch for example divides the 'sciences' into   
   >'alpha' for what you call the 'humanities', like history for example,   
   >'beta' for what you call the hard sciences, like physics, and   
   >'gamma' for the 'new' sciences, like sociology.   
   >In the olden days physics could also be called   
   >'proefondervindelijke wijsbegeerte', so so 'experimental philosophy'.   
   >(following Simon Stevin, who coined many new words, some still in use)   
      
   That seems to make some useful distinctions, but I wonder if the   
   Afrikaans "wetenskaplike" has perhaps absorbed some of the   
   connotations of the English "?scientific" (as opposed to "ascademic"   
   or "scholarly") that the Dutch equivalent doesn't have.   
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