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Versimilitude

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The appearance of truth

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Baker’s Dozen Concept

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The key to good hospitality is to delight your guests with an unexpected gift. If you run a hotel, leave a chocolate on the bed. If you run a bakery, give your customers one extra bagel.

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Aegrescit medendo.

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Cure is worse than the disease in Latin

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Hopf Fibration

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Fiber bundle that is the medium of all waves and particles

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Saguaros

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Cactus in the US

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Simpler explanations with the least assumptions are the most accurate

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Occam’s Razor

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When the top and bottom because of their positions continue in their directions. “The rich get richer”

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Matthew Paradox

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Not everything is measurable. So people base assumptions on what can be measured with is a mistake

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Legibility

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AKA Rosenthal effect. Expectations affect the target performance

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Pygmalion Effect

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Preference Falsification

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People lie about actual opinions to conform with socially acceptable preferences

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Straussian

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write esoterically, that is, with multiple or layered meanings, often disguised within irony or paradox, obscure references, even deliberate self-contradiction

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Acts 9:1 Saul persecuted Christians. Christ visited him ‘blinded by the light’ and restored and became Paul.

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Road to Damascus Moment

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Sui generis

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Unique, outside of categories

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Inter Alia

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Among others

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3 Parts of axis

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Pitch, yaw, roll

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Negative behavior drives out good behavior in an unregulated environment (think bad drivers)

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Gresham’s Law

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Theory of Constraints

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It’s the bottleneck that is the issue. Fix the bottleneck to optimize the system.

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Thinking about the problem upside down or start at the end

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Inversion Thinking

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Work expands to fill the time available

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Parkinson’s Law

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Overton Window

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The boundaries that are acceptable for discussion.

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Gresham’s Law

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Negative behavior drives out good behavior in an unregulated environment (think bad drivers)

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System that can heisenbergianly change based on social or forecast effects

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Complex Adaptive Systems

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Someone is more likeable when they make a mistake like spilling

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Pratfall Effect

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When a measurement becomes a target. Vanity Metrics.

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Goodhart’s Law

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Pareto Efficient

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Ideal economic state where benefits made may not be so to others.

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Weak and feeble person

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Milquetoast

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Complex Adaptive Systems

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System that can heisenbergianly change based on social or forecast effects

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It’s the bottleneck that is the issue. Fix the bottleneck to optimize the system.

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Theory of Constraints

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The boundaries that are acceptable for discussion.

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Overton Window

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Anthropological story that illustrates a moral lesson

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Fable

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Thinking in the ripples of further effects of everything

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Second order thinking

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Pratfall Effect

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Someone is more likeable when they make a mistake like spilling

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Mimetic Theory of Conflict

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People who are more similar are more likely to fight than people who are different. Civil Wars.

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La Llorona

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Mexican folklore about a ghost woman who drowned her children and mourns their deaths for eternity

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Madagascar interesting history

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Colonized 800s 20% by SE Asians

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de jure

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True as a result of authority

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Caveat emptor

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Buyer beware

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Hormesis

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A low dose of something can have the opposite effect of a high dose. Lifting weights 30 mins vs 6 hours.

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Irreducibility

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Cannot make better with more resources. 5 women don’t make children 5 times faster.

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40
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Duende

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Hispanic folklore of the goblins that live in the walls or forests and used to scare children into good behavior.

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41
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Logic is the key to scientific truths, but paradoxes are key to psychological ones. When you find two opposites that are both true, start exploring.

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Wisdom of the paradox

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Belief Perseverance

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Maintaining a belief despite new information that clearly contradicts it.

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43
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Harberger Triangle

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AKA Deadweight Loss

Point at which tax no long makes something worth doing and then there is therefore no more revenue

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Circle of competence

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Assessment of strengths and weaknesses

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Pareto Efficiency

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Theoretical economic state where no interference is required

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Fragility

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Responsiveness of a system to negative variability.

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Bayesian Updating

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Prior effect affect future odds

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48
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You don’t need to get good at doing difficult things if you get good at avoiding difficult things.

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Table Selection

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Fiat

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Statement from authority

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Borjas Rectangle Theory

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Theory by Weinstein that employers compaining about labor shortages are actually concerned about the price per capita of labor.

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51
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Story that teaches a moral/religious lesson

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Parable

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Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior.

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Hock Principle

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Nota Bene

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Worth Noting

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54
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Fiber bundle that is the medium of all waves and particles

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Hopf Fibration

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Maintaining a belief despite new information that clearly contradicts it.

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Belief Perseverance

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Folklore

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A story believed by a specific group of people

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Point at which adding more will begin to bring less values

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Diminishing Returns

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Why you did it vs why you tell yourself why you did it.

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Difference between motive and reason

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59
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Empire that took over after the Macedonians

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Seleucids

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The key to good hospitality is to delight your guests with an unexpected gift. If you run a hotel, leave a chocolate on the bed. If you run a bakery, give your customers one extra bagel.

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Baker’s Dozen

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Robustness Principle

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Concept in coding that be liberal in what you accept but tight on what you offer. Like google maps search.

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Thinking you knew all along

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Hindsight bias

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Associative Machine Fallacy

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One thing simply reminds us of another and clouds judgement

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Relativity in a system

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An observer cannot understand a system that he is part of

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65
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Cure is worse than the disease in Latin

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Aegrescit medendo.

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Butterfly effect. Small perturbations in initial conditions have massive downstream effects making them unpredictable.

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Chaos dynamics

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A story believed by a specific group of people

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Folklore

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Motte and Bailey

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Moving the argument to another part which is easier to defend

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Legibility

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Not everything is measurable. So people base assumptions on what can be measured with is a mistake

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Faustian Bargain

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A deal with the devil

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andreia

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Ancient greek for Manliness. Achilles and Hector

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72
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Via Negativa

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When it’s better to take things away than to add things. Like it can be better to avoid certain foods than add them.

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73
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One thing simply reminds us of another and clouds judgement

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Associative Machine Fallacy

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74
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A deal with the devil

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Faustian Bargain

75
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Tribe etymology

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Greco roman denoting a voting unit and eventually just a small group of people

Then in euro points it was used as a derogatory term for non-civilized african

76
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Gall’s Law

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A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system

77
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Road to Damascus Moment

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Acts 9:1 Saul persecuted Christians. Christ visited him ‘blinded by the light’ and restored and became Paul.

78
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Playing by different rules

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Asymmetric Warfare

79
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Assessment of strengths and weaknesses

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Circle of competence

80
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A low dose of something can have the opposite effect of a high dose. Lifting weights 30 mins vs 6 hours.

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Hormesis

81
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Occam’s Razor

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Simpler explanations with the least assumptions are the most accurate

82
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Pygmalion Effect

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AKA Rosenthal effect. Expectations affect the target performance

83
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Hyperbolic Discounting

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Tendency that the more gratification is delayed the more one chooses the smaller-sooner reward (bad habit)

84
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Cactus in the US

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Saguaros

85
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Changing the meaning of a sentence by replacing one word with a synonym that implies a different meaning. For example, the same person can support an estate tax but oppose a death tax — even though they are the same thing.

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Russell Conjugation

86
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Newton’s 3rd law as applied in social dynamics

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Reciprocity in Law

87
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Red Queen Effect

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When one species evolves an advantage while another responds in its own kind. An arms race of development.

88
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Tridium

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religious observance lasting three day

89
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Bike Shed Effect

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Arguing over trivial ideas when there are more important ones. Like NASA arguing about uniform colors.

90
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Multiplying by Zero

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A failure in one area destroys all other areas. Fix the bottlenecks

91
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The two branches of game theory

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Normative: outcomes focused Descriptive Decision Theory: how agents actually make decision

92
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Arguing over trivial ideas when there are more important ones. Like NASA arguing about uniform colors.

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Bike Shed Effect

93
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Matthew Paradox

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When the top and bottom because of their positions continue in their directions. “The rich get richer”

94
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A biological trait developer for one purpose that is used for another.

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Exaptation

95
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When one species evolves an advantage while another responds in its own kind. An arms race of development.

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Red Queen Effect

96
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First Conclusion Bias

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Tendency to settle on first conclusions

97
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Ante bellum

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Before the war

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Prima Facie

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Accepted as true until proven false

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Parable

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Story that teaches a moral/religious lesson

100
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Break everything into the basics and go from there. In football this is the rules and what you can do with them

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First Principles Thinking

101
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GEO satelites are travelling how fast?

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7000 miles per hour

102
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People lie about actual opinions to conform with socially acceptable preferences

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Preference Falsification

103
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George Borjas

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Economist who believe that increasing immigration actually negatively affects the lower end options of the people below

104
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Status Quo

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Existing state of affairs. It is what it is.

105
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An observer cannot understand a system that he is part of

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Relativity in a system

106
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Hellenistic Period

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Period between the death of Alexander the Great and the Roman Empire

107
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The two types of engines

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Spark: Gasoline

Compression: Diesel

108
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A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system

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Gall’s Law

109
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homophrosyne

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Ancient greek term to describe two people feeling or thinking alike. Odysseus and Penelope

110
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Wolf’s and Davis’s Law

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Bone and muscle will grow or weaken based on how it is used.

111
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Cannot make better with more resources. 5 women don’t make children 5 times faster.

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Irreducibility

112
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Goodhart’s Law

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When a measurement becomes a target. Vanity Metrics.

113
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Gruen Transfer

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Creating a mazelike shopping experience to force people to wander and buy more

114
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Hindsight bias

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Thinking you knew all along

115
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Hickam’s Dictum

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In a complex system, problems usually have more than one cause. For example, in medicine, people can have many diseases at the same time.

116
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Second order thinking

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Thinking in the ripples of further effects of everything

117
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When it’s better to take things away than to add things. Like it can be better to avoid certain foods than add them.

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Via Negativa

118
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Ofrendas

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Mexican day of the dead ritual display

119
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In a complex system, problems usually have more than one cause. For example, in medicine, people can have many diseases at the same time.

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Hickam’s Dictum

120
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Cassus Belli

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An act or event that provokes or is used to justify war

121
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Tendency that the more gratification is delayed the more one chooses the smaller-sooner reward (bad habit)

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Hyperbolic Discounting

122
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id est

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i.e. in other words

123
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Red Queen Effect

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A biological trait developer for one purpose that is used for another.

124
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The 3 Types of Economic Efficiency

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Consumption (Decent path from supplier to consumer)

Production

Product Mix Efficiency (Supply matches desires of consumers)

125
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Fallacy that no risk can be incurred because the original investment is secured.

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Playing with the house’s money

126
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A failure in one area destroys all other areas. Fix the bottlenecks

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Multiplying by Zero

127
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Percent etymology

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Part of 100

128
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Milquetoast

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Weak and feeble person

129
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Russell Conjugation

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Changing the meaning of a sentence by replacing one word with a synonym that implies a different meaning. For example, the same person can support an estate tax but oppose a death tax — even though they are the same thing.

130
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Responsiveness of a system to negative variability.

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Fragility

131
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Mechanical leverage of a hammer is around

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6:1xx

132
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Stochastic Processes

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Volatile systems can be predicted more over time like the stockmarket

133
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A priori

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A belief based on assumption instead of experience or evidence

134
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Tendency to settle on first conclusions

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First Conclusion Bias

135
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Per se

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By itself, specifically

136
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Mea Culpa

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Admit or accept fault

137
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We should not attribute to malice what is more attributed to stupidity

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Hanlon’s Razor

138
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Volatile systems can be predicted more over time like the stockmarket

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Stochastic Processes

139
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Planck Principle

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Science doesn’t progress because people change their views. Rather, each new generation of scientists has different views. As old generations pass away, new ideas are accepted and the scientific consensus changes.

140
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Cogito Ergo Sum

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I think therefore I am

141
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Hanlon’s Razor

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We should not attribute to malice what is more attributed to stupidity

142
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Table Selection

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You don’t need to get good at doing difficult things if you get good at avoiding difficult things.

143
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in camera

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In chambers, in private

144
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Parts of a rail track

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Head

Base

Web

145
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Fable

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Anthropological story that illustrates a moral lesson

146
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An act or event that provokes or is used to justify war

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Cassus Belli

147
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the desire to be well thought of by others

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Approbativeness

148
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Diadochi

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Generals of Alexander the Great

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150
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The appearance of truth

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Versimilitude

151
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Wisdom of the paradox

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Logic is the key to scientific truths, but paradoxes are key to psychological ones. When you find two opposites that are both true, start exploring.

152
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Semper Fi

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Short for semper fidalis, always faithful, motto of the marines

153
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Approbativeness

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the desire to be well thought of by others

154
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Horseshoe theory

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People far apart are more the same than someone in the middle.

155
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Chaos dynamics

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Butterfly effect. Small perturbations in initial conditions have massive downstream effects making them unpredictable.

156
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Kaldor Hicks Objective

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A change made to an enomic system that can only have positive outcomes

157
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Normative: outcomes focused Descriptive Decision Theory: how agents actually make decision

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The two branches of game theory

158
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Moving the argument to another part which is easier to defend

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Motte and Bailey

159
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Diminishing Returns

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Point at which adding more will begin to bring less values

160
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First Principles Thinking

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Break everything into the basics and go from there. In football this is the rules and what you can do with them

161
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Prior effect affect future odds

A

Bayesian Updating

162
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Difference between motive and reason

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Why you did it vs why you tell yourself why you did it.

163
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Hock Principle

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Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior.

164
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Affordances

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Subtle signs such as constraints or directions in objects that give a user an impression on how to use it

165
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Be liberal in what you accept but tight on what you offer. Like google maps search.

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Robustness Principle

166
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Playing with the house’s money

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Fallacy that no risk can be incurred because the original investment is secured.

167
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People who are more similar are more likely to fight than people who are different. Civil Wars.

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Mimetic Theory of Conflict

168
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Science doesn’t progress because people change their views. Rather, each new generation of scientists has different views. As old generations pass away, new ideas are accepted and the scientific consensus changes.

A

Planck Principle

169
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Inversion Thinking

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Thinking about the problem upside down or start at the end

170
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Xenia

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Ancient greek word to describe the relationship of a host and a guest

171
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Parkinson’s Law

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Work expands to fill the time available

172
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Sidereal rotation

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1 roation of the earth taking account the one degree difference in sun’s location

173
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Asymmetric Warfare

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Playing by different rules

174
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Reciprocity in Law

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Newton’s 3rd law as applied in social dynamics

175
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People far apart are more the same than someone in the middle.

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Horseshoe theory

176
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Standard length of rail segments

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39 feet because railcars are 40 feet

177
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What is used to hold two railroad tracks together?

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Bolted Fishplate Splice

It’s the sound of the rail

178
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Distance between two train rails

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The Gauge

1435 mm

Comes all the way back from Roman Chariot days

179
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Thing connecting two trains together

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Janney coupler

180
Q

Reversed

write esoterically, that is, with multiple or layered meanings, often disguised within irony or paradox, obscure references, even deliberate self-contradiction

A

Straussian

181
Q

Reversed

Unique, outside of categories

A

Sui generis

182
Q

Reversed

Among others

A

Inter Alia

183
Q

War etymology

A

Not from latin

Old High German werra, ‘quarrel’.

Mine (3 decks)

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