Encapsulation unpythonic?

[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.464.1378078348.19984.python-list at python.org>,
 Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:

> One of the more annoying traits of humanity is that whatever context we
> first encounter a term is disproportionately privileged, causing us to
> irrationally dismiss better (more useful, more reasonable, more
> pedagogically appropriate, more historically correct, etc.) definitions.

Known in the education world as "The law of primacy".