Damasio approvingly quotes Spinoza's pithy formulation: "The object of the idea constituting the human Mind is the Body".
Legal scholars view that dissent as a pithy formulation of the right to privacy -- a principle that, years later and in a different context, formed the basis for the court's ruling in Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion.
The pithy formulation is "Senses are not to be multiplied beyond necessity," alluding to Ockham.
In one particularly pithy formulation, which neatly captures the thrust of the new thinking's insistence upon God and Man as two irreducible subjects of historical predications, he says that 'God and Man is a reciprocal letter exchange' (1968, 23).
It's a veritable two-headed monster: Where the government's case may be weakest, win-at-all-costs prosecutors may be most tempted to teach witnesses, in the pithy formulation of Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, "not only to sing, but also to compose".
He also argues, in Pros tous, that easily memorized, abbreviated formulations of the cardinal maxims are useful, and he gives us (IV 9 14) the pithiest formulation of Epicurean tenets, the 'Fourfold Drug' (tetrapharmakos logos): 'god is not fearsome, death not frightening, the good easily got, the bad easily endured'.
But, though they have inherited the pithy naming formulation – from "Frexit" and "Nexit" through to "Oexit" – the proposed referendums vary depending on what they want, what they're motivated by, and how likely they are to happen.
POTUS thinks pithy means "dirty".
