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palmotea 33 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The revenge of the philosophy majors

> Using a vocabulary that is known only to themselves.

So? Almost all professions have jargon known only to themselves. You think most people have any clue what a garbage collector is?

SoftTalker 33 days ago | [–]

Law and medicine seems to go overboard with e.g. latin terms for everything.

antonvs 33 days ago | [–]

A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, after all.

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