Timeline for What was the original usage of the term "haptic"?
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| Sep 17, 2015 at 20:41 | answer | added | Michael Papademetriou | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Sep 17, 2015 at 15:15 | comment | added | Mitch | Josh, the gap is in the particular dimension. There's visual vs tactile (latinate), but optic vs haptic (Greek). Aural, auditory, auricular may have been a wrong choice (all latinate) but physicians weren't necessarily consistent. | |
| Sep 17, 2015 at 15:04 | comment | added | user66974 | @Mitch. wasn't 'tactile' already availabe at that time? etymonline.com/index.php?term=tactile | |
| Sep 17, 2015 at 15:00 | comment | added | Mitch | It was probably coined to fill out a lexical gap: optic, aural, olfactory,... It has been popular since in those circles where touch as a sense is important, eg medicine (neurology), perception in psychology. | |
| Sep 17, 2015 at 14:42 | history | asked | user66974 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |