You could make up a new category and call it by the same name as the old category, if what you wanted was to confuse people and make clear thinking more difficult. If you want to define a category without historical baggage, I would prefer that you used a different term so that it was clear that you weren't talking about the concept laden with that baggage.
Without the 13th-century POV in question, the distinction becomes meaningless.
Why? Can we not define what a professional degree is without the historical baggage?
You could make up a new category and call it by the same name as the old category, if what you wanted was to confuse people and make clear thinking more difficult. If you want to define a category without historical baggage, I would prefer that you used a different term so that it was clear that you weren't talking about the concept laden with that baggage.
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maybe we should include alchemy in the list then
Alchemy was a subfield of natural philosophy, not a profession. Its European practicioners had typically studied medicine or theology.
Ever heard of Chemistry?
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Is this sarcasm?
And people say the humanities aren't important....
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