On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Philip Hart wrote: >On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, David Silberstein wrote: > >> On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Philip Hart wrote: >> >> >(what's below hypothesis?) >> >> Suggestion? >> Notion? >> Idea? >> Pulled-from-out-of-arse wild speculation? > >I'm looking for some philosophy-of-science-blessed term, if possible >with a Greek root.... "Idea" is Greek. How about "ideation"? More to the point, "*pararectal* ideation"? OK, so "rectum" is latin, but "para" is definitely Greek. [tangent] I have the notion that "pararectal" ought to be prefixed before all examples of science and technology as portrayed in the movies and television. So, for example, Lara Croft is pararectal archeologist. The more the science/tech deviates from reality, or from sane speculation, the more prefixes we add to the term, to indicate that it came from further up the descending colon. So while, say, Trek's "warp drive" is merely pararectal, the way the universal translator *immediately* recognizes languages is hyperpararectal technology, and the bogon-particle-du-jour is superhyperpararectal particle physics. [/tangent]