NISHIO Hirokazu[English][日本語]

Coined words are not intellectual production.

  • It is not intellectual production to do coined word.
  • When Useful Concepts / Useful Cuts are found as a result of intellectual production and there are no appropriate words to describe them, they are coined as Concept Handles after the fact.
  • If a person who sees the coined word feels that the concept / section it refers to is useful and tries to use it himself, the coined word is used because a handle is needed to use it. Only then does the coined word become a shared vocabulary among several people.
    • As the number of people sharing the concept increases, social proof of its concept's usefulness is gradually established.
  • Coined words that no one found useful are not [* shared vocabulary

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  • No need to be [* shared vocabulary
    • If using that handle benefits my intellectual production, it's a useful coinage.
  • I have often used the word "concept," but I felt it would be better to elaborate more on what kind of concepts are often useful.
    • It is not at all difficult to create a concept, for example, one can name "a number that is a square number when the decimal notation is reversed" as an "inverse square number". Not very useful.
  • I thought one concrete example of one step (but not all) would be "section".
    • The "section" page was blank, so I generated it and got a good one.

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