Superficial coinage

from Coining your own terminology

• Philosophers and mathematicians create [New Terms

  • This is because they A New Way to Cut Up the World and created a new concept.
  • We need a word to call it, and we have no choice but to create it.

• Look at what clever philosophers and mathematicians of the past have created words,

  • To copy only the superficial "Creating Words" part of the process is
  • It's a lame "you don't get it" look.

• If the concept the word is pointing to isn't useful, it's going to be hard to get more people to use the word.

• Yukio Mishima の話を思い出した

• The coined word of a scholar of literature is different from the frivolous vogue word, and is meaningless without the utmost earnestness to express what cannot be expressed with the existing words, even if the words have to be bent.

  • Literature Reader, JOIS, where Finnegans Wake is mentioned.
    • This is a subtraction from Naoki Yanase, "How translation should be done" (Iwanami Shinsho), p.186.

• Why can't we have frivolous buzzwords?

  • No "seriousness"?
    • It goes along with the above ["They new ways of cutting the world create new concepts"].
    • I'm not sure if it's the spirit or...

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