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Every linguist knows what linguistics is; he knows all about the aims of his own research and usually he also knows what other linguists are doing. He hopes that if he does what others do, he will be performing science. However, he seldom thinks about what science is, what its components are and what the place of linguistics in the system of science is.
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Altmann, G. (1993). Science and Linguistics. In: Köhler, R., Rieger, B.B. (eds) Contributions to Quantitative Linguistics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1769-2_1
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