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> In many ways we've just given things names as if that suddenly means they're understood. The jargon term for this is "dormitive potency" or, more originally,
by thaumasiotes 1y ago
> In many ways we've just given things names as if that suddenly means they're understood.
The jargon term for this is "dormitive potency" or, more originally, "dormitive virtue".
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dormitive_virtue https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dormitive_virtue