RE: groupthink gauntlet: MacArthur's ill-fated drive toward the Yalu

From: M Lissack (lissacktravel@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue 03 Feb 2004 - 16:11:43 GMT

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    as far as keith and arel and hofstadter go she coined the word

    we do not know what others may think

    and since when does coinage mean anything?

    --- Keith Henson <hkhenson@rogers.com> wrote:
    > At 11:35 AM 03/02/04 +0000, you wrote:
    > > <and,as the inventor of the word
    > "memetics,">
    > >
    > > ... have I missed something? Who's
    > claiming this and on what
    > >grounds? Or am I missing some ironic meaning?
    >
    > Her email was not intended to be posted, and Arel is
    > not reading the list
    > now, but she did coin the word. She gets credit in
    > Hofstadter's
    > _MetaMagical Themas_. I would give you the page
    > number, but my copy is
    > loaned out. Look in the index for "Arel Lucas."
    >
    > Keith Henson
    >
    >
    >
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