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Comment by medler

1 year ago

This is a common pattern in history:

- Person 1 makes an observation that they assert is true

- Person 2 refers to this observation as “Person 1’s Law” for convenience when discussing the observation and whether or not it is true.

There’s nothing wrong or “graceless” with Person 1 then using the term themselves, even for the purpose of arguing in favor of their assertion (which is what this web page is doing).

Some examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law