From: "Paul Marsden" <PaulMarsden@email.msn.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: On Gatherer's behaviourist stance
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 09:43:39 +0100
Aaron wrote
>But it may, in effect, be too late for Dawkins to undo the damage of not
>being sufficiently clear in 1976. The propagation of alternative meanings
>may have forced at least some lexicographers to recognise non-specific
>meanings of the word. Those of us who want a specific term may therefore be
>the ones who must stop using the term "meme."
What a brilliant idea!
Paul Marsden
Graduate Research Centre in the Social Sciences
University of Sussex
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