Algorism means "I'm always right, no matter how the facts turn out."
The trouble is that Algorism has now invaded science. This is very bad. Mr. Lewis, "algorism" is already a real word with a long and dignified history in mathematics, and I don't find your new definition useful or edifying.
Looking at www.onelook.com, it shows 19 general dictionary hits for "algorism" (and even one from A-Word-A-Day):
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- algorism : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
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- algorism : The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- algorism : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
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- algorism : UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
- Algorism : Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
- Algorism : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
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- Algorism : AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- algorism : Webster's 1828 Dictionary [info]
- algorism : Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info]
- algorism : Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
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"In Bush v Gore the US Supreme Court finally decided enough was enough, by a vote of 7-2. You don't get to replay the game until you win. The Supremes and George W. Bush have been ferociously hated for that ever since by our friends on the Left, who apparently never play card games. If you're allowed to deal the deck over and over again until you win, you're not playing poker, but some sort of childish game of self-delusion."
THE best summary of what actually occured. Let the Liberal DU's eat that.
My own view, not original to be sure, is that Gore was driven crazy by his loss in 2000. He knows he lost, but he had the most votes. He cannot reconcile that fact in his mind, so he went on the GW crusade. That was the only way to keep what was left of his sanity. And that’s almost completely gone.
Just replace tulips with carbon credits and you get the picture. Hopefully it won’t reach this level of blind greed.
In 1623, a single bulb of a famous tulip variety could cost as much as a thousand Dutch florins (the average yearly income at the time was 150 florins). Tulips were also exchanged for land, valuable livestock, and houses. Allegedly, a good trader could earn six thousand florins a month.
By 1635, a sale of 40 bulbs for 100,000 florins was recorded. By way of comparison, a ton of butter cost around 100 florins and “eight fat swine” 240 florins. A record was the sale of the most famous bulb, the Semper Augustus, for 6,000 florins in Haarlem.
By 1636, tulips were traded on the stock exchanges of numerous Dutch towns and cities. This encouraged trading in tulips by all members of society, with many people selling or trading their other possessions in order to speculate in the tulip market. Some speculators made large profits as a result. Others lost all or even more than they had.
Some traders sold tulip bulbs that had only just been planted or those they intended to plant (in effect, tulip futures contracts). This phenomenon was dubbed windhandel, or “wind trade”, and took place mostly in the taverns of small towns using an arcane slate system to indicate bid prices. (The term windhandel is similar to the recent term vaporware: both have much the same metaphor.) A state edict from 1610 (well before the alleged bubble) made that trade illegal by refusing to enforce the contracts, but the legislation failed to curtail the activity.
In February 1637 tulip traders could no longer get inflated prices for their bulbs, and they began to sell. The bubble burst. People began to suspect that the demand for tulips could not last, and as this spread a panic developed. Some were left holding contracts to purchase tulips at prices now ten times greater than those on the open market, while others found themselves in possession of bulbs now worth a fraction of the price they had paid. Allegedly, thousands of Dutch, including businessmen and dignitaries, were financially ruined.
The Global Warming scam is the 21st Century version of the Piltdown Man.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus