Renamed Things
Justifications for new words
Latinate words are becoming meaningless. And, if that is too harsh, then at least they are becoming subject to a flattening of meaning. Not only do the cognates not work synonymously or interchangeably, but great error emerges as concepts, when unexamined, are taken for granted. Additionally, as “A.”I. becomes more common, people begin to use many more Latinate words to sound sophisticated without saying anything - that is to say, sophistical. It is not just the babbling machines, but Academese has been a scourge for even longer. Anglo-Saxon or Germanic words should replace those which are cognates plainly taken from Latin words. To better form students in the post-modern world, there is much work needing to be done to make would language ready for the task.
Importantly, this is not an absolute principle. The words which take the place of current jargon will themselves become the new set of jargon
A word bank has already been in the works
Word Bank
| “fancy” word being replaced | replacement |
|---|---|
| distinction | ”loosen two threads”, “untangle two threads”, resolution, |
| premise | furnishing, equipment |
| axiom, postulate | axiom, forspring, forebear, foretake |
| wisdom | wisdom |
| knowledge | knowing |
| understanding | |
| prudence (phronesis) | gumption |
| (techne) | craft |
| Ethics | |
| prudence note | tact, gumption, cleverness, mindfulness, |
| temperancenote | refrainment, restraint, forgoment, forgoity |
| fortitudenote | bravery, courage, forbearance |
| Justice | Justice |
| Metaphysics | |
| Formnote | shape, frame model |
| matter | fill, rudiment, bulk, load |
| prime matter | plain rudiment |
| Cause | because why |
| efficient cause | initiating because / explanation starting why |
| material cause | rudimental because / explanation |
| formal cause | structural because / explanation model explanation |
| final cause | goal because / explanation launch explantion |
| categories | predicates attributions properties |
| intention | gist, |
| Anthropology | |
| imagination | |
| phantasm | likeness,hue,guise note |
| memory | |
| what-is-for-ed-ness | note motif / trope, bearing / heading, connotation |
Nick’s Comment
NAW
This is excellent. I think developing a vocabulary that can withstand the assult of AI is a good idea. Latinate words have become fallow. If you want to use latinate words, just speak latin.Is there anything you want me to do? I think have some ideas for other words, some of the words you use I don’t think are that good i.e “likeness” for phantasm.
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You can change whatever you would like! Please add suggestions to the table, and if you want, ad a section below that links to that table row, and give an explanation of why you think something is better.
You do not like “likeness” as a replacement for “phantasm”?
what about ‘hue’ or ‘guise’?
Notes
Various Words / Concepts
“what-is-for-ed-ness”
issue: the memory stores both the ‘what-is-for-ed-ness’ of a phantasm, but also the pleasurableness and painfulness (these last two are in animals, coming from the estimative sense, which is totally in the material body.) In a person, the cogative sense (more encompassing than the estimative sense)
Proposals: motif / trope, bearing / heading, connotation
“form”
issue: form may or may not communicate what is intended
“cause”
issue: cause now has to much of a determining factor in a technocratic paradigm, it also makes boomers angry. It is more accurate to use what we now understand as ‘because’, than ‘cause’. ‘Cause’ tends more to be a mechanical thing for Moderns and Postmoderns.
proposal: explanation, why, because,
“imagination” / “phantasms”
phantasm, fancy / phancy, figure, type, guise, ween, guess,
hue, bly/blee,
None of these are super helpful. “Figure” might have to be further specified as “mental figures”, which sort of ruins it as an option. People will reach for the shorter thing.
Perhaps “guise”, though, again, this might need an additionally adjustive. Since guise might have more of a sense of “deceived falsity”
Cardinal Virtues
Generally speaking, these have been ruined by protestants. ‘temperance’ is no longer a word that can be used. ‘prudence’ has a negative connotation, and no one says ‘fortitude’. Justice might be the only concept not totally destroyed.
“Temperance”
(temperantia)
Explanation
is specifically the regulation of available goods - more specifically: the forfeiting of lower good for the sake of availability of higher goods.
Some authors seem to speak of it as exclusively dealing with the senses, but it seems that is too narrow. Because even in a being in a spiritual aspect, there needs to be a regulation of reaching out for higher goods, which are presently at a distance. In this way, humility can actually fit within temperance, because it is denying this particular and close good, for the sake of that farther and higher good.
~vis, we will not stop to eat at this cafe here, because up the mountain, there are berries with a great vista.
Thus, fasting from food is giving up the good and the pleasure, which is the sensible sign which points to it, of that food for something greater.
‘Temperance’ sounds like not drinking alcohol, and general stuffiness. Because of this, the idea is stunted and biased before starting. What is really going on is regulation, command, planning, strategy. Because of that, there needs to be a word that can evoke that. Hence,
Word alternatives
‘restraint’ gets that the idea of having power but not using it. ‘control’ gets at self-possession. ‘forgoing’ or ‘forgoity’/‘forgoment’/‘forgoance’(parallel to forbearance), I like this one the most in terms of philosophically communicated the parts by its etymology. ‘eschew’ (means the same as temperantia, not taking a good for moral or ethical reasons), but might sound too slang. ‘recusance’ (meaning to ‘willingly forgo’ or ‘willingly to refrain’) is a good word, but might have a tinge of the political, since Catholics who refused to abide by the state church of England were called ‘Recusants’, and the act was ‘Recusancy’. ‘Refrainment’ (means ‘to bridle with bit’), though Latin in etymology, it was introduced into English early on, It might have a connotation of judges or of diobediance. meeth
“Fortitude”
(fortitudinis)
Explanation
is specifically doing the arduous for the sake of goods - more specifically: overcoming partial evil for the sake of distal greater good.
obviously, all evil is partial, not whole, as any evil is an absence of an expected good ~viz, a missing foot, there is still a person who is good, but because there is a person, there is an expectation that the foot would be there also. But partial here means an evil in a part, as opposed to other parts or the whole.
Thus, pain can be a sensible indicator of evil (bodily hard to particular organs), which can be overcome
The evil in a part is suffered for the sake of the good of another part(ideally which is higher), or for the good of the whole.
‘Fortitude’ seems to not be the best word. Hence,
Word alternatives
‘bravery’ works, or ‘courage’. Though ‘courage’ is a Latin cognate. So bravery is probably better. ‘forbearance’
“Prudence”
(prudentia)
Explanation
is the assessment, arraying, and deployment of available means to accomplish ones goals. More specifically, it is the optimal utilization of means for ends.
Thus prudence is not just making good decisions or making plans and strategies or of having a list of items. It is a multi-layer action, which does not need to be extended over a long time, but could be almost instant. One does have a list, of what means are available; one does plan, of how to use those means; one does make a decision, to put that plan with those means into place. There is, ultimately, outside of prudence, but permeating every part of it, the particular goal, the end, the good to which the prudent man acts.
A proposed alternative to ‘prudence’ needs to connote the wide range of parts which make up to whole virtue, while still holding out the expectation for the end which is outside of the prudence. Hence,
Word alternatives
‘gumption’ seems the best, literally: “means the ability to make the best decision in a situation and then do it with energy and determination” from:wiki -
‘mindfulness’ is proposed, but remain unsatisfactory. It does not point outside of itself or outside of the person. It is also without the implication of action. ‘craftiness’ comes too close to artifice or techne. ‘heedfulness’ certainly captures the taking stock part, and potentially the arraying / strategy part, but still seems far too speculative, without the implication for action. ‘Shrewdness’ maybe is the closest, but also sounds like the animal and originally means wicked. ‘Savvy’ does have more of a the right implication; has an implication of taste. ‘Adroitness’ does actually have a Latin root, but one which is more convoluted. ‘clever’ skillful, might have current connotation of being intelligent without practicality. ‘canny’
‘acumen’ ‘discretion’
“Distinction”
This phrase generally
Explanation
So many people are scared or hateful or, really, phobic of the word. There is so much irrational hatred of it, mostly by people who are less intelligent, who are set in a state of wounder then stupor over the vastness of reality.
Either using the phrase, “untangling two treads” (or loosening), or resolving (making reference to optics, where the resolution of a system of lens is either the act of seeing two distinct things, or the “minimum resolution” is the smallest size that two things can be seen as separate from each other and not as one blob)