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...Leave it to a Princetonian to devise such an esoteric term as "cept" to describe "the smallest convenient unit of knowledge" [March 26]. In the "old days" at Brown University we mundanely called these forms of knowledge "fifty-pointers." While it's true that we didn't have anything as sophisticated as "multi" or "kilo" fifty-pointers, they did work...
...Cept: TIME magazine is usually...
...Cept: But occasionally TIME pulls out a bona fide cept...
...Cept: One such "The Use & Abuse of the Cept...
...Cept: "Accuracy is the soul of truth"-and TIME neatly sums up our Princeton existence in the second paragraph...