fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 years agoWe don't judge here. :)mander.xyzimagemessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down11
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minus-squareoce 🐆@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoI’d replace scientist to something more precise like physicist because usually people consider mathematicians as scientists even if it depends on definitions.
minus-squaremilicent_bystandr@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years ago usually people consider mathematicians as scientists Yikes! … Wait, does this mean I can call a historian an artist? Then I’m game.
minus-squareBigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoYou can call them whatever you want, what are they going to do? They’re historians!
minus-squaremilicent_bystandr@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·2 years agoIn twenty years time they’ll rip into me on r/askhistorians
minus-squareoce 🐆@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoHistorians are scientists imo. Is that a reference I don’t have?
minus-squaremilicent_bystandr@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·2 years agoUsually (in my experience?) history is one of the ‘humanities’, which are more lumped with arts than sciences.
I’d replace scientist to something more precise like physicist because usually people consider mathematicians as scientists even if it depends on definitions.
Yikes!
… Wait, does this mean I can call a historian an artist? Then I’m game.
You can call them whatever you want, what are they going to do? They’re historians!
In twenty years time they’ll rip into me on r/askhistorians
Historians are scientists imo. Is that a reference I don’t have?
Usually (in my experience?) history is one of the ‘humanities’, which are more lumped with arts than sciences.