[Corpora-List] Do you think LINGUISTICS is SCIENCE or ARTS?

[Michal Ptaszynski]

The discussion on whether linguistics is science or arts is very  
interesting and stimulating, but it seems many of us forget that this,  
rather young, classification is very superficial, imprecise and a little  
bit forceful. In the beginnings of science (let me naively narrow the  
scope to "Aristotle and surroundings") there was no division into such  
"hard" and "soft" sciences - there was just "science" in the meaning of  
"using the head mainly to think and not to bang one's head against a brick  
wall" (read: philosophy). However, it does seem that contemporary science  
needs such distinctions, as there are many scientists preferring the  
latter.

Michal