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FROM time immemorial savants and scholars have taken liberties with well-known words and phrases and by ‘new definitions’ have imparted highly specialized meanings to familiar expressions. While in some cases such actions can be justified on the grounds of greater clarity of meaning and greater precision of definition, as a general practice the imparting of specialized meanings to well-known words and phrases tends to obscure any language, even the language of mathematics, particularly when the specialized meanings involve largely meaningless ‘new definitions’.
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BENSON, G., FLOOD, E. Partial Differentiation, with Special Reference to Thermodynamics. Nature 200, 259 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/200259a0
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