In article <[email protected]>,
 Ben Finney <[email protected]> wrote:

> One of the more annoying traits of humanity is that whatever context we
> first encounter a term is disproportionately privileged, causing us to
> irrationally dismiss better (more useful, more reasonable, more
> pedagogically appropriate, more historically correct, etc.) definitions.

Known in the education world as "The law of primacy".
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