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SUMMARY:No really\, it is: 'water' and 'H2O' - Robin Findlay Hendry (Durha
 m University)
DTSTART:20111020T153000Z
DTEND:20111020T170000Z
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CONTACT:Karin Ekholm
DESCRIPTION:'Water' is common to both scientific and vernacular language\,
  and so is a good example with which to explore the disputed relationship 
 between them. Does vernacular usage defer to science\, so that water must 
 be H2O? If so\, then for centuries the folk might apply the term to someth
 ing that science may discover not to be water. Or may vernacular usage pro
 perly resist scientific reform\, because it embodies a quite distinct body
  of knowledge and classificatory interests? In that case things that are n
 ot H2O may rightly continue to be called 'water'. Call these options defer
 ence and difference: I argue that difference presupposes the basic adequac
 y and coherence of the vernacular usage. In the case of 'water' that adequ
 acy and coherence is missing unless the term tracks H2O content.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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