Timeline for 'Realm' or 'domain'?
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| Jan 12, 2015 at 23:16 | comment | added | user6951 | Yes @Jay but I thought there is a difference between talking about a truth-statement alleged by an example sentence of the asker (this political party sucks), and talking about whether an assertion made in a statement can be true semantically. Part of the indicative is to provide information. A-friend asks about the meaning of the sentence. And to me the semantics of 'the domain of medicine' as used in a sentence is not a politically charged topic. shrug | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 22:12 | vote | accept | A-friend | ||
| Jan 12, 2015 at 20:18 | comment | added | Jay | @CarSmack On this forum, I generally avoid commenting on the truthfulness of statements used as examples. There have been plenty of examples given from articles about politics or religion that I totally disagree with, and I try to just keep my mouth shut on the underlying subject and discuss the grammar. (Though, I admit, I do occasionally deviate from that principle.) :-) | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 19:23 | comment | added | user6951 | Everything in the domain of medicine can be found on the internet is also untrue. And your first sentence works better with within. | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 19:11 | comment | added | user6951 | The sentence also is not constructed well: On the internet you can find everything in the domain of medicine can mean that everything on the internet falls within or under medicine's domain. | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 18:47 | answer | added | Jasper | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 16:58 | answer | added | Jay | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 16:55 | answer | added | jaybrau | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 16:02 | comment | added | A-friend | Thank you @CarSmack; but I heard that 'realm of psychology' and 'domain of medicine' are two fixed expressions! :-/ It sounds a little puzzling to me now! :-( | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 13:57 | comment | added | user6951 | No. First there are no true synonyms. This is true in the phrases you create here. The 'realm of medicine' and the 'domain of medicine' do not have the same meaning in your sentence. In my opinion, realm (meaning 'sphere') works better in both sentences; domain calls to mind a more physical kingdom. Or at least it does not as easily correspond to sphere for me. It is a question of context which word sounds better. Words have a symbiotic relationship to their context and are not wooden pegs to neatly pound into any available hole without a subtle shift in meaning happening. | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 13:10 | comment | added | M.A.R. | I'm not a native, neither sure, but if I were you I would have used "scope". | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 12:31 | history | asked | A-friend | CC BY-SA 3.0 |