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Medicine has a good term, “Idiopathic” to mean “we have no clue what’s going on, but we’re still the experts you should defer to”. It indicates an expert ignorance All fields need a term like that. How about we use “cryptodynamic” for matters of expert engineering ignorance?
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Conditions are usually sorted into 3 categories for diagnostic purposes: PRIMARY - inherited or acquired by itself SECONDARY - as a consequence or side effect of another IDIOPATHIC - unknown cause Also 4th: IDIOTPATHIC - usually secondary to saying "Watch this!
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