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To: Getready

“Also you shouldn’t use the term “theoretical” since
the root word is “theos”(i.e. God)...”

I didn’t know that. The potential implications are quite interesting.


20 posted on 04/17/2007 8:54:22 PM PDT by RussP
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To: RussP; Getready
"Also you shouldn’t use the term “theoretical” since the root word is “theos”(i.e. God).."

"I didn’t know that. The potential implications are quite interesting."

Probably because it is not true.

Theory
1592, "conception, mental scheme," from L.L. theoria (Jerome), from Gk. theoria "contemplation, speculation, a looking at, things looked at," from theorein "to consider, speculate, look at," from theoros "spectator," from thea "a view" + horan "to see." Sense of "principles or methods of a science or art (rather than its practice)" is first recorded 1613. That of "an explanation based on observation and reasoning" is from 1638. The verb theorize is recorded from 1638."
26 posted on 04/17/2007 9:00:56 PM PDT by ndt
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