Subject: Re: Aristotle was a Memetician (and would have defended it)
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 97 16:19:40 -0400
From: Wade "T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
To: memetics <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>Because the medium for meme infection is often discourse, then it is
>inevitable that many of the themes coming out of lit criticism and rhetoric
>appear in memetics, just as will themes from philosophy, AI, biology,
>cognitive science etc also appear, but this doesn't mean that memetics is
>any less valid.
Then again, it may be time to bring forth 'Philology' from its undeserved
ashes.
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