But, I’d bet you wouldn’t want to be treated by someone
trying a “theoretical” cure on you or anyone you
love.
Also you shouldn’t use the term “theoretical” since
the root word is “theos”(i.e. God)... in science
you should never use anything that smacks of belief in God.
Right? Maybe the term should be anthroretical, or perhaps
cerebroretical, or phrenoretical, or rna-oretical, or
string-oretical.
“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.
From an online etymological dictionary:
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.
So the root is theoros, i.e., spectator. And that's an apt description of a scientist...