odf23ds: “Ack. Could you please invent some terminology so you don’t have to keep repeating this unwieldy phrase?”
Well, there are worse things than an unwieldy phrase! Consider how many philosophers have spent entire books trying to communicate their thoughts, and still failed. Looked at that way, Jef’s phrase has a very good ratio of length to precision.
odf23ds: “Ack. Could you please invent some terminology so you don’t have to keep repeating this unwieldy phrase?”
Well, there are worse things than an unwieldy phrase! Consider how many philosophers have spent entire books trying to communicate their thoughts, and still failed. Looked at that way, Jef’s phrase has a very good ratio of length to precision.