premise: Users of the L will be far better off if spared the technique of defining in the W , carried over from the Third Unabridged , in which the full explanatory definition is abandoned in favor of a scattering of synonyms set in SMALL CAPITALS, which, more often than not, are likely to lead the user who has the paitence to pursue them to other words defined in the same inept manner.
hypothesis: Users of the L will be far better off if spared the technique of defining in the W, as opposed to defining what the W is.