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What something is called does matter

Author(s) -

Jordan Benjamin R.

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

eos, transactions american geophysical union

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316

H-Index - 86

eISSN - 2324-9250

pISSN - 0096-3941

DOI - 10.1029/2006eo290008

Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , order (exchange) , space (punctuation) , epistemology , engineering ethics , engineering , philosophy , computer science , economics , linguistics , finance , artificial intelligence

My comments are prompted by a seemingly innocuous Eos meeting report on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) Small Bodies Educator Conference ( Eos , 87(8), 2006). While I applaud the efforts that JPL and others go to in order to train educators and to educate the general public on advances in Earth and space science, I nonetheless take issue with the idea that, as it was reported educators were told, “what we call something is not really important.” This is an entirely specious claim, and I find it disturbing that such a perspective should ever find general acceptance.

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