Yes. This is what Martin is concerned with. I’m just aware of the trade off betw

Yes. This is what Martin is concerned with. I’m just aware of the trade off between neologisms and refinement of definitions of existing terms of art. I prefer the latter whenever possible … partly because most philosophers (including my past self) have made the mistake of inventing neologisms rather than say, the continuation of refining a concept. For example, aristotelian, newtonian, einstein, and post-einstein gravity. Do we change the term gravity? No. But Gravity is something we understand no matter what – it’s inescapable – but we still seek to explain, while Rule of Law is a term of art that we need to explain and people will oversimplify given it’s decomposable into colloquial speech.


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