Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 19:36:26 +0100
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: i-memes and m-memes
In-Reply-To: <19990901162210.AAA16152@camail2.harvard.edu>
In message <19990901162210.AAA16152@camail2.harvard.edu>, Wade T.Smith
<wade_smith@harvard.edu> writes
>>Memetics is a way of thinking about events and relationships, not a
>>description of individual things.
>
>(Ah, memetics is a meme-plex....)
What else? :-)
>Sounds a lot like that old thing 'philology'-
>
>* The study of linguistic change over time in language or in a particular
>language or language family, sometimes including the reconstruction of
>unattested forms of earlier stages of a language. *
>
>- with 'culture' (or 'behavior', which seem to be the same thing here
>more often than not) replacing language.
>
>Yes, no?
>
>- Wade, who ain't arguing- he likes philology....
Sounds to me like philology is a subdomain of memetics.
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