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| | W. McCarty, Humanities computing as interdiscipline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-31) |
 | | Disciplines can of course be practiced independently, by euphemestically named "independent scholars", but the context in which our question is being asked quite clearly implies an institutional definition. |
 | | Etymologically discipline, pertaining to the disciple or scholar, is antithetical to doctrine, the property of the doctor or teacher; hence, in the history of the words, doctrine is more concerned with abstract theory, and discipline with practice or exercise. |
 | | Without knowing precisely what a discipline is, we can nevertheless see easily that humanities computing is interdisciplinary by nature, which is to say that it divides naturally according to the types or ways of viewing data rather than by the disciplines of application. |
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