I don't know what I think about all that. Nor do I know what I think about people who think about all that. I'll have to study up on it all. Are there any Cliff Notes? Mike Geary studying skeletons in his closet and wondering where the hell they came from. On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 12:42 AM, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > On Oct 29, 2011, at 9:13 PM, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > It may well be the case that for any X, there are "X Studies". This > > motivated Ritchie to create the course, "Studies Studies" -- as opposed > to what > > Walter O. calls "meta-studies". > > > Ah those simple days of yore, when mere Studies Studies sufficed. > Nowadays one has to include the words "theory" and "cross-cultural" and > "interdisciplinary" and "process," or a great rift valley opens where once > the passage was sure beneath. > > David Ritchie, > the Pneumatic Medical Institute, > Portland, > Oregon------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html >