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{{ | {{a|people|}}{{Maxim|If we all removed just one brown brick of pedantry from the road we travel every day, the roads would not be strewn, as they are, with brown bricks of pedantry.}} | ||
{{d|Pedantry|/ˈpɛdəntri/|n|}} | |||
1. The resting state — the happy place — of any [[legal eagle]]. <br> | 1. The resting state — the happy place — of any [[legal eagle]]. <br> | ||
2. Courtesy of the [[JC]]’s [[tenth law of worker entropy]]; the [[rule of collective agency]], in which it is understood that all agents must, in the service of a common principal, tolerate each others’ pedantry, the instinctive starting point of any [[agent]] when deciding how to act. | 2. Courtesy of the [[JC]]’s [[tenth law of worker entropy]]; the [[rule of collective agency]], in which it is understood that all agents must, in the service of a common principal, tolerate each others’ pedantry, the instinctive starting point of any [[agent]] when deciding how to act. | ||
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Pedantry
/ˈpɛdəntri/ (n.)
1. The resting state — the happy place — of any legal eagle.
2. Courtesy of the JC’s tenth law of worker entropy; the rule of collective agency, in which it is understood that all agents must, in the service of a common principal, tolerate each others’ pedantry, the instinctive starting point of any agent when deciding how to act.
See also
- Care horizon
- Laws of worker entropy
- Dilbert’s programme to finally codify pedantry.