Why define reputation?
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
— Chinese Proverb
“Everybody knows what reputation is — why bother to define it?”
The OED has four pages worth of definitions and examples of reputation – even pithy and lightweight dictionaries provide several options. Here I’ve defined a starting point and a common set of descriptions to build from. If everybody knows what reputation is, clearly this starting point will be background information. If not – or if you feel that reputation is something other than described, this can be a starting point for discussion.