On 5/4/07, John Conway <john.a.conway@gmail.com> wrote:Well, "morph" is just Greek for "form", and according to Aristotle, anything that is definite has a form, which would include behaviour. And forgive my ignorance, but isn't "apo" a Greek prefix, and "character" a Greek word?
> The apomorphy *is* the behavior.
Ah, I didn't know behaviour could count as an apomorphy (you know, the _morphy_ part).
I have sometimes thought it might be nice to use another word here. Maybe "apocharacter"? ("Character" being Latinized Greek.)