[RC] Apothegms

[Dr. Ernie Prabhakar]

Billy wrote:
> Here is a brilliant idea ))):-/  , what all of this should have been 
> from the outset
> is a dialogue with the title-
>  
> WHAT's  WRONG WITH THIS IDEA ?

Fair enough. I've decided I should introduce a new term (actually, 
steal one) to describe what I'm doing with these putative definitions:

APOTHEGM

You can look it up, but since nobody seems to use it or have much of an 
idea of what it means, I've decided to adopt it/abuse it for my own 
purposes.  Self-referentially, the apothegm for Apothegm is:

An apothegm is a cross between an epigram, a hypothesis and a theorem

That is, I use the term for apothegm to refer to these brief, 
provocative sayings which I hold tentatively to be true, yet consider 
potentially useful for building or explicating a larger system of 
thought. Intended as much to provoke feedback and reflection as to 
assert a useful truth. What I've previously called an "actionable 
adage."

Using an obscure term like might actually help clarify what I'm 
doing/creating, since it lacks the emotional connotations of words like 
'hypothesis', and forces people to be consciously aware that they do 
NOT know what it means -- so I can define it by usage.

Does that make any sense at all?   Or, put another way, what's wrong 
with this idea? :-)

Ernie "The Apothegmary" Prabhakr
(or is that Apothegmist :-)
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