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Article #1274Re: Forgotten Entities: Do You Remember Any?
From: Bill Purves
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 1990 07:44
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 1990 07:44
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In article <3870@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> minsky@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) writes: >Protoplasm. The stuff inside cells. It was a big thing when I went >to grade school. Do they still talk about it? No. About thirty years ago, Garrett Hardin used to campaign against the term, likening it to the word "flame" (in the sense of a candle flame)--something that's there but that isn't an object. "Protoplasm" was a slightly useful term when people didn't know what "protoplasm" consists of. Now we simply speak of its constituents, although the word lingers as a non-technical term, usually in flowery prose. (bill) -- William K. Purves (714) 621-8021 Department of Biology purves@jarthur.claremont.edu Harvey Mudd College PURVES@HMCVAX.BITNET Claremont, CA 91711
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!jarthur!purves From: purves@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Bill Purves) Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.chem Subject: Re: Forgotten Entities: Do You Remember Any? Keywords: protoplasm Message-ID: <9413@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Date: 30 Oct 90 07:44:23 GMT References: <1990Oct25.232546.12357@portia.Stanford.EDU> <1990Oct26.072420.28005@cec1.wustl.edu> <90300.133611JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET> <1990Oct30.030717.8923@midway.uchicago.edu> <3870@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Followup-To: sci.bio Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711 Lines: 17