See also: [(art) Concepts] [Philosophical Concepts] [Art TermsCognoscenti
Literally those that know. That is, THE ones in THE KNOW. I am reminded of a quote (ferget who sed it) "An intellectual is to intellegence, as a gent is to a gentleman" -- prob Winston or Mark, Dorthy? As you "cognoscenti" know: winston = winston churchill (or winston seductress in Monty Python's Holy Grail) Mark = Mark Twain (or Mark Hamil in Star Wars, or Mark van Doren father of the quiz-show guy) Dorthy = Dorthy Parker (or Dorthy in the wizard of oz, or the guy "johnnie" in the movie Air Plane) Actually, I have my fill of people who try to make things more complicated than they are. They use a $27 word, where a $3.95 blue-plate special word would do. The don't make things "concrete", they "reify" them, They don't "avoid making things confusing", they "eschew obsfuscation".