So I’ve run into this issue myself because sometimes you need to put a name to a concept that no one ever seems to have bothered to name before, or maybe someone did name the concept in the past but in a way that it got confused by processes described in the post and comments such that in the current context a new term is needed, and my general preference is to yank in a foreign word with no currency in modern English. Usually I do this by finding some handy Greek or Latin word since those have extra gravitas among certain circles, but any language will do. I like this because the word has a meaning already that is close to what I want, but also has no meaning at first to your reader so you get to set that up as you wish and avoids being misunderstood out of context since it will instead generate a “what?” response.
Since usually I’m doing this because I need to make a more precise category than any that is handy in the service of philosophy I avoid some of the other ways new jargon fails, although given time all jargon may rot it seems, so it seems we must forever refresh our jargon on some cycle as its meaning drifts through usage.
So I’ve run into this issue myself because sometimes you need to put a name to a concept that no one ever seems to have bothered to name before, or maybe someone did name the concept in the past but in a way that it got confused by processes described in the post and comments such that in the current context a new term is needed, and my general preference is to yank in a foreign word with no currency in modern English. Usually I do this by finding some handy Greek or Latin word since those have extra gravitas among certain circles, but any language will do. I like this because the word has a meaning already that is close to what I want, but also has no meaning at first to your reader so you get to set that up as you wish and avoids being misunderstood out of context since it will instead generate a “what?” response.
Since usually I’m doing this because I need to make a more precise category than any that is handy in the service of philosophy I avoid some of the other ways new jargon fails, although given time all jargon may rot it seems, so it seems we must forever refresh our jargon on some cycle as its meaning drifts through usage.