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1908 Nov 29
Logic
I.i. 9

science of chemistry. The definition, if not by Coleridge,
evidently originated with some equally unscientific person.
I can testify that men of science, in conversation with one another,
uniformly use the word in a definite but totally different sense, and in entire disregard of
its etymology, a circumstance which shows how much need they had
of a word to express their meaning. That meaning agrees, ex-
cepting in two respects, with that which is generally
assumed to have been the original meaning of φιλοσοφία, love
of knowledge. The first of the exceptions is that not mere love
of knowledge, but the more than diligent, the devoted pursuit of it, is
understood when scientific men talk of science, and beside that, it is understood that
this pursuit is conducted according to well-approved methods. The
second exception is that nothing is considered as belonging to science