DeVliegendeHollander comments on Log-normal Lamentations - Less Wrong

12 Post author: Thrasymachus 19 May 2015 09:12PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 20 May 2015 03:41:51PM *  0 points [-]

Yes and I don't even know the history of the word, how the meaning changed. Esp. that it was in Buddhist centers with Tibetan stuff all over it where this word I heard used the most often - yet what business does a Latin word have there at all? It may be a reuse. "Meditation" is actually a reuse and a pretty lossy one - it used to mean "thinking things over".