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1908 Dec 1
Logic
I.i. 17

our resolutions, etc., etc. For every person not on the borders of
idiocy knows these things, science or no science.

But when I speak of a science how much shall I include?
Shall I, for example, make organic and inorganic chemistry,
the new physical chemistry, radioactive chemistry, the de-
termination of atomic weights and crystallography one science or six or how many?
My answer is that it must depend on the states of mind of the
chemists. An organic chemist feels himself more at home in the company
of organic chemists than with inorganic chemists, yet more
at home with these than with the students of radioactivity,
with these again rather than with crystallographers, and with
these rather than with students of the distribution of gravity or
with those who devote themselves to the lunar theory. In short the