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Re:Peek Behind Bret Victor's Lab at YC HARC by dragonwriter on Friday July 21, 2017 @01:57AM (#14818374)
> The royal road to clarifying subtle differences in language, however, is etymology

No, it's not. Etymology tells you where a word came from, not what it means (either in denotation or connotation) in current usage. It will often be completely misleading in trying to unpack subtle differences in meaning.

Re:Peek Behind Bret Victor's Lab at YC HARC by DonHopkins on Friday July 21, 2017 @05:02AM (#14819064)
How is heterodoxophobia more nuanced than literally meaning being afraid of different opinions?

http://tcpc.blogs.com/musings/2010/05/homodoxuals-and-hetero...

Re:Peek Behind Bret Victor's Lab at YC HARC by dang on Friday July 21, 2017 @03:10AM (#14818647)
I couldn't disagree more.