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Planning to get married in Goa? www.weddingsetcgoa.com Making your 'dream wedding' possible ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- On Mon, 10/12/09, Frederick Noronha <[email protected]> wrote: > > There are 15 meanings for the word "organic" in diverse fields, and I >just > wonder if Vaidya Bhide used it in the same sense as Santosh Helecar > >understood it. > In the science of chemistry, which is a rational and empirical study of all substances in the universe, there is only one meaning to the word "organic", just as in biology and medicine there is only one meaning to the word organ, even though it has many meanings in the English language. Now it is possible that Vaidya Bhide treats his patients with philosophical or architectural medications. But is important for the public to understand that one of the main objects of being scientifically literate is not to confuse science with English literature. Cheers, Santosh See: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/organic > FN > PS: Is the oppsite of Gramsci's "organic intellectual" an > "inorganic > intellectual"? I think not, but we're moving far away from > ayurveda, > and Kaankon to post-WWII Italy :-) > > 2009/10/12 Santosh Helekar <[email protected]>: > > > It appears that the approach here is to fool the > > public by using politically appealing words such > > as "organic", with misunderstood and mis-applied > > New Age connotations. It is much easier than > > doing the honest hard work of actually > > gathering objective scientific evidence for their > > incredible claims. I have already pointed out > > that this vaidya does not know the scientific > > meanings of the words "organic" and "inorganic". >
