Message-Id: <199809142224.SAA31844@camel7.mindspring.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 18:29:45 -0500
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: bbenzon@mindspring.com (Bill Benzon)
Subject: Re: On Gatherer's behaviourist stance
At 5:09 PM 9/14/98 -0500, Aaron Lynch wrote:
>replicators identified with the word "meme." A far more productive
>approach, if he wishes to pursue it, would be to try to ask a very
>prominent behaviorist to coin a new behavior-centered term and publish it.
>
This is a rather striking statement. Why should someone who wants a new
term ask a prominent thinking to coin and publish? Are prominent thinkers
the only ones allowed to have new ideas and coin new terms?
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