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I find it mildly annoying when people state such nuggets of knowledge as “laws”. Sure, it’s generally true that you can’t go for the most sophisticated and powe
by klysm 7y ago
I find it mildly annoying when people state such nuggets of knowledge as “laws”. Sure, it’s generally true that you can’t go for the most sophisticated and powerful system at the first go, but sometimes the minimal working system is complex no? Anyway, it’s certainly not a “law” of the universe.
- stygiansonic 7y agoIt’s a colloquialism, like Moore’s law.
- sev0 7y ago"Law" can also be used for pithy statements that don't have to be particularly rigorous. C.f. Murphy's Law.
- K0SM0S 7y agoThis statement generalizes quite well all around the world to the other kind of law, that's voted in parliament/congress... haha! ;-) More seriously, I think the word OP is looking for is theory. Nuggets aren't theory, they're really empirical by essence — observations.
- mdonahoe 7y agoKlysm's Law: Nuggets of knowledge are not laws. Referring to them as such annoys Klysm.
- Smoosh 7y agoAn aphorism being called a law is called a klysmism.
- marcantonio 7y agoIn other words: salt tastes salty.