FW: a word/

Orion Montoya gorion at GMAIL.COM
Mon Feb 19 23:09:10 UTC 2007


On 2/19/07, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> Hmmm...I take it that's the prefix of "hom(o)eopathic" and
> "homeostasis"?  Besides yielding an admirable opacity, that would

Oh, of course, I'd forgotten about those; my excuse for not
naturalizing the oily hellenism of the όμοιος '-oi-' is that I was
taking it directly from the homoousian vs. homoiousian doctrine/heresy
in early Christianity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiousian

Which is evidently not the first place we talked about an iota of
difference, so don't go there.

O.

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