>Perhaps the faux intellectualism is on the other side... <_<
It really isn't. Nomenclatures in the sciences and other fields are used for the purpose of clarity and concision; they make communication more effective. For example, when a mathematician mentions an Eigenvalue, other mathematicians know specifically what this object is. That is the point.
When people borrow words from these nomenclatures and change their meaning, it makes their writing pretentious and bloated, not to mention less clear.
Besides, the criticism was overly pedantic, but alas. The explanation wasn't even that bad.
Decomposition of a design problem in a set of orthogonal questions is exactly what is being described.
Solving then the problem by providing solutions that don't overlap is also what is being described.
And the author is right about mentioning that because it's not actually obvious that giving a solution to each "eigenquestions" provide a canonical basis for the solution space, so to speak.
Really it seems that people want to be pedantic just to be pedantic... I don't think such arrogance is warranted here.
It really isn't. Nomenclatures in the sciences and other fields are used for the purpose of clarity and concision; they make communication more effective. For example, when a mathematician mentions an Eigenvalue, other mathematicians know specifically what this object is. That is the point.
When people borrow words from these nomenclatures and change their meaning, it makes their writing pretentious and bloated, not to mention less clear.